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Release Notes: grml 1.1 Skunk (20080224)

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About

grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB of software and documentation on the CD.

Bugfixes

Fixed several bugs and issues reported on grml_1.0 @ grml-wiki.

New features

Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.

New grml-scripts:

New bootparameters/cheatcodes:

grml2hd (install grml to harddisk):

See grml.org/grml2hd/ for more details regarding grml2hd.

grml-terminalserver (boot grml via network)

See grml.org/terminalserver/ for more details regarding grml-terminalserver.

Special new features:

Kernel

Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.23.16 including several patches and additional modules:


acerhk acx100 at76-usb atl2 aufs bcm5700 drbd8 exmap
gspca ipw3945 iscsitarget ivtv kqemu linux-wlan-ng
loop-aes lzma madwifi ndiswrapper nozomi openafs pcan
qc-usb r1000 r5u870 r6040 realtime-lsm rt2400 rt2500 rt73
sdricoh_cs sl-modem squashfs sysprof tp-smapi truecrypt

Notice: some more modules (like fglrx and nvidia) are not pre-installed but available through the grml-repository.

See grml.org/kernel/ for more details regarding the grml-kernel.

Important Changes

To avoid problems with isolinux/syslinux on older hardware (see syslinux mailinglist) we decided to put several files like kernel and initrd from /boot/isolinux/ into a new directory named /boot/$GRML_FLAVOUR/. This should improve the possibility for supporting multiboot in the future as well.

Due to the new initial bootprocess (which is based on live-initramfs) some bootoptions might not work as expected or changed its behaviour. The grml team is working on merging outstanding features. If you think you found a bootoption that does not work as expected/documented please report it.

The bootoption expert has been dropped. It is deprecated nowadays. The bootoption splash has been renamed into textsplash to avoid clashes with graphical bootsplashes.

Packages / Software

Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are available at the Debian section. See dpkg_get_selections for a main package listing and dpkg_list for a more detailed list of packages shipped with grml 1.1.

Updates

Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20071225 (plus some further selected updates).

Removed 82 packages [please notice that some of them are available under different names/in different packages]:

*2.6.20-grml* lib*

3ware-3dm2-binary airsnort artwiz-cursor attacker autofs
bandwidthd-pgsql centericq centericq-common check clvm
cogito cpp-2.95 crywrap dbengine debtags defrag discover
discover-data dnsdoctor dvgrab emacs21 emacs21-bin-common
emacs21-common fbgetty findimagedupes flac123 gnuplot
gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 gnus gnus-bonus-el grep-dctrl
grml-kerneladdons-2.6.20 gs gs-common hwtools idn
ation-report ion3 ion3-mod-xinerama ion3-scripts
irssi-text jail kiss lckdo lshw-common modutils
mozilla-firefox ncftp2 nessus netdude netpipes
openbsd-inetd pdns python-mode python-semanage rhapsody
rt2400 rt2500 schedutils scsi-idle sqlrelay
sqlrelay-postgresql sqlrelay-sqlite squashfs surfraw
tdb-dev thinkpad-base tinysnmp-tools tpctl trapdoor2 twin
unison2.9.1 user-de vncommand w3-el-e21 w3-url-e21
xdebconfigurator xfonts-artwiz xpdf-utils xtla xzgv

Added 176 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml*):


2vcard ack-grep acpi-support-base acpitail aggregate
aosd-cat apt-transport-https asql awesome balance bittwist
bluez-audio bsd-mailx centerim-common centerim-utf8 cereal
conky cpp-4.2 ctorrent dns2tcp doc-base docbook-xml
duplicity dzen2 ecryptfs-utils edac-utils elfkickers
emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common epdfview
etckeeper exifprobe fai-client fai-doc fai-server fatsort
firmware-iwlwifi firmware-ralink flashrom fuseiso
fuseiso9660 g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gconf2
gconf2-common ghostscript ghostscript-x git-svn gitpkg
gksu gnome-keyring gnupg-pkcs11-scd gparted
grml-debian-keyring grml-kerneladdons-2.6.23 grml-live
grml-paste gzrt haproxy hdaps-utils hdapsd hfsprogs hgsvn
hplip hplip-data iceweasel-webdeveloper ifupdown-extra
inoticoming iodine irqbalance irssi-plugin-xmpp
iscsitarget itop jp2a kanif kpartx ldnsutils linux-wlan-ng
live-initramfs logapp loop-aes-testsuite lsb-release
luvcview lzma mailplate metastore mkelfimage mlocate mr
nessusclient netrw netsurf nscd nvclock obconf op
open-iscsi open-vm-tools openbox opencryptoki packeth
paperkey paris-traceroute pcaputils pm-utils pmailq
pngtools polipo poppler-utils pristine-tar privbind pssh
python-dbus python-gnupginterface python-pycallgraph
python-setuptools python-urlgrabber rinse rofs rt73-common
runit rutilt s3cmd scamper scanmem scrollkeeper
shorewall-common shorewall-shell sl sm
snort-common-libraries splint-data squashfs-tools supercat
svgalibg1 sysutils taktuk tasksel tasksel-data tetex-base
tetex-bin texlive tgt thinkfinger-tools timelimit tra
ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra uml-utilities unhide
uniutils unsort vim-tiny virtualbox-ose-guest-utils
wacom-tools wamerican wapiti x11-apps x11-session-utils
x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils
xar xauth xbacklight xdelta3 xdg-utils xinit xrestop
xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd yatm
yeahconsole

Upgrade notes

As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at the upgrading webpage in the grml-wiki as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to subscribe to the grml-user mailinglist!

Changes since release 1.0 (20070518)

Known issues

Take a look at grml_1.1 @ grml-wiki. Please report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/.

Download grml 1.1

grml 1.1 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on grml.org/download/.

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check grml_1.1 @ grml-wiki and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback, feature requests and bug reports to the grml-team!

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to Henning Sprang, Thomas Lange, Michael Schmitt, Daniel Baumann, Karl Voit, Norbert Tretkowski, Jan-Pieter Jacobs, Wolfgang Karall, Darshaka Pathirana, Andrea Mayr and Wernfried Haas for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who donated something to the grml-team and of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last release!

More Information

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