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The first release candidate of grml 0.9 is available. Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features. Please test the ISO and all the stuff you usually need so we can provide a rocking stable 0.9 release soon. Download the ISO from the devel directory of the mirrors listed at grml.org/download/.

We don't have artwork for grml 0.9 yet (besides a fallback version from myself) and therefore the release-name for grml 0.9 isn't stable either. So if you want to 'immortalize' yourself in grml and can contribute a nice wallpaper and/or a cd-cover: please let me know!

Update: wallpaper is ready, release-name as well (thanks for ideas - formorer and Martin Piskernig!). The cd-cover is pending but will be done in the next few days...

You might notice problems with the subdomains (wiki, hg, lists,...) of grml.org. It's a problem at the DNS-provider which has been informed already...

Update: the problem has been solved a few hours ago. Everything should be working again...

We have a new develrelease. grml 0.8-5 is available for beta-testers and grml-developers.

Quoting the main changelog:

   * Added support for detection and activation of SW-RAIDs in
     live-cd mode. Can be disabled via bootoption noraid (and is
     disabled as well through forensic and raid=noautodetect).

   * Added grml-debootstrap: wrapper around debootstrap for
     installing plain Debian via grml very simple and fast

   * Added script fma: shipped with grml 0.8-4 already but not yet
     mentioned, provides "fast manual access" (take a look at it!)

   * zsh:
     - new alias hidiff (highlight important stuff in diff
       output using histring) [thanks for the idea, T!]
     - added power completion, thanks wuehlmaus!
       See http://zshwiki.org/home/examples/zleiab for details.
       Notice: this deactivates the global aliases by default now,
       just use the global aliases as well but press ',.' afterwards
       to expand the abbreviation! Trust me: you should know and use
       it! :-)

   * Fixed some issues in configuration framework handling, thanks
     for the reports, Marc Haber!

   * language stuff: added support for Norsk environment, thanks to
     Arnt Karlsen! [not yet visible in grml-setlang though]

   * grml-bootsplash: replaced the clear command with
     "echo -ne '\033[H\033[25l'" to avoid flickering at bootoption'splash'. Thanks a lot, Michael Schierl!

As written in my private blog (german article only, sorry) I own a amd64 system now. A grml64 kernel is available and I already have a first working grml64 live-cd version. I plan to be able to release a first public version of grml64 together with grml 1.0. Stay tuned.