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Release Notes: grml64 2010.04 - codename Grmlmonster

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About

Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of texttools. 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. Due to on-the-fly decompression Grml includes about 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.

Whereas Grml is meant for use on 32 bit systems, grml64 provides support for 64 bit platforms. It is based on the amd64 port of Debian. Take a look at the 'Debian-Information'-section if you are searching for the package list.

New features

Special new features:

New features in Grml's Zsh

Major changes in grml-scripts:

grml2usb (install Grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):

Visit the usb webpage in the Grml wiki and grml.org/grml2usb for more details regarding grml2usb.

grml-debootstrap (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via Grml):

Visit grml.org/grml-debootstrap/ for more details regarding grml-debootstrap.

grml-live (build system for creating a Grml (based) Linux live system):

Visit grml.org/grml-live for more details regarding grml-live.

Kernel

Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.33.2 including several patches and additional modules:

aufs iscsitarget loop-aes lzma ndiswrapper
speakup squashfs sysprof xtables-addons

Visit grml.org/kernel/ for more details regarding Grml's kernel.

Bugfixes

Fixed several bugs and issues reported on grml64_2009.10 @ grml-wiki and in the bug tracking system.

Important Changes

Packages / Software

Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg_get_selections for a main package listing and dpkg_list for a more detailed list of packages shipped with grml64 2010.04.

Updates

Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 24st of march 2010 (plus some further selected updates).

Removed 56 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.31-grml64*) - please notice that some of them are available under different names/in different packages:

*2.6.31-grml64* lib*

3ware-cli-binary aria2 aufs-tools bash-minimal
bluez-audio bluez-gstreamer console-setup
consolekit cpp-4.3 dpkg-ftp dpkg-multicd elmo
emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common
fatsort g++-4.3 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3
gcc-4.3-base gcc-4.3-multilib gcc-multilib gcom
gconf2-common gfs-tools gfs2-tools
grml-mercurial-utils grml-scanpartitions
heirloom-mailx iceweasel-webdeveloper igal2
keynav lomoco metamail mirrordir naim openipmi
policykit python-celementtree python-elementtree
python2.4 python2.4-minimal rar ras sdd sfind
sl-modem-daemon snmp star vcdtools wacom-tools
webcam-server xar xlockmore
xserver-xorg-input-hyperpen zenmap

Added 79 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.33-grml*):

aesutil apt-xapian-index bfa cifs-utils cmospwd
cpp-4.4 ctris deletemail docbook2odf dupseek ex
ext3rminator fakechroot fbterm febootstrap
fsarchiver ftpbackup g++-4.4 gateguardian
gcal-common gcc-4.4 gdbserver gdisk genisoimage
gifshuffle gkrellm-x86info glipper-nognome
grml-quickconfig grml-quickconfig-standard
grml-udev-config histring htcheck hwloc i855crt
icedax icmp-mtu icmp-quench icmp-reset
infiniband-diags keyboard-configuration lxc
mbuffer modem-cmd nbd-client nbd-server ncp
netsniff-ng nginx numactl perf podracer prosilla
ptfinder pyneighborhood python-glade2
python-libxml2 python-openssl python-rpm
python-sqlite python-sqlitecachec
python-urlgrabber python-xapian python2.6
python2.6-minimal qemu-kvm rootsh ruby1.9.1
secvpn shadowfs shish shmux sudosh tal ufsutils
usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data xz-utils yum
zerofree

Major changes since release 2009.10 (20091031)

Known issues

Take a look at grml64_2010.04 @ grml-wiki. Please report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/.

Download grml64 2010.04

grml64 2010.04 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on grml.org/download/.

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check grml64_2010.04 @ grml-wiki and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the grml-team!

Thanks

Many thanks (alphabetically) in this release go to Alexander Menk, Andras Korn, Axel Beckert, Christoph Biedl, Christian Hofstaedtler, Daniel Borkmann, Gregor Perner, Jordan Uggla, Mark Jonas, Martha Augsburger, Pawel Sadkowski, Richard Hartmann, Sedat Dilek, Stefan Weiss, Suhanov Maxim, Timo Boettcher, Thomas Arendsen Hein, Tong Sun, Xuân Baldauf and Zoran Dzelajlija for their contributions.

More Information

You can find out more about grml on our website, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Further Questions?

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