Brings exciting new features and many bugfixes

Jun 2, 2009 08:12 GMT  ·  By

The team behind the grml project announced yesterday, June 1st, the release of grml 2009.05, codename Lackdose-Allergie, for both 32- and 64-bit architectures. grml 2009.05 is based on vanilla kernel 2.6.28.10, complete with various patches and extra modules. The software packages were updated to the Debian Unstable branch as of May 19th 2009; other 82 packages were removed. Two important bugfixes, along with other small ones, are present in this version: handling of the localtime / utc / gmt was improved and vimrc will now only enable certain features if they are available.

Main new features in grml 2009.05:

· Added a "persistent" bootoption; · Added the "findiso" bootoption, a dynamic variant of the isofrom bootoption; · The minimal MirOS BSD operating system can now be booted through the "bsd" bootoption; · Added "HDT" bootoption - hardware detection tool; · Added the "readonly" bootoption, useful for forensic tasks; · Added the "hwspeak" option that probes any hardware modules that are available; · Zsh now supports directory specific shell configuration.

A new script was also introduced in grml 2009.05: grml-exec-wrapper, a simple program execution wrapper that checks for programs' availability. The grml2usb functionality, that allows USB installs, was re-implemented and brings important new features such as: multi-ISO support, additional bootoptions support and automatic installation of detected MBRs. Moreover, GRUB can now be used as the default bootmanager.

For the full list of changes, please see the official Release Notes.

About grml

grml is a Debian-based Live CD Linux distribution and includes a collection of 100% FREE software especially created for users of text-mode tools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection and can be used not only as a rescue system, for analyzing systems and networks, but also as a powerful workstation. Thanks to an efficient on-the-fly decompression, grml comes with about 2.1 GB of software and documentation on the Live CD.

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