new grml-develrelease: 0.8-2
Hurray, we have a new develrelease! grml 0.8-2 is available for beta-testers and grml-developers.
Quoting the main changelog:
* Features brand new kernel 2.6.18-grml
Notice: the fglrx and nvidia modules are available at
http://dufo.tugraz.at/~prokop/grml-kernel/2.6.18-grml/
Notice2: not all modules are available yet; the missing ones are:
reiser4 (not yet in kernel), acx100, adp94xx, bcm5700, dazuko,
drbd8, lufs, nozomi, spca5xx, qc-usb, sl-modem, thinkpad,
truecrypt
* grml2hd checks whether you're installing to something like
/dev/hdb3 and if /dev/[sh]da are harddisks, the lilo-dialog
provides the possibility to install lilo into MBR of /dev/[sh]da
instead of /dev/hdb3 or /dev/hdb. (Thanks for idea and code-base
goes to Alexander Bernauer!)
* Unicode support!
/archives/178-basic-unicode-support-for-grml.html
What does this mean? You can use something like 'grml
lang=at-utf8' to set environment variable for unicode.
Just use "lang=$YOURLANGUAGE-utf8" to use this feature.
The script grml-setlang allows to configure environment
variables through /etc/default/locale. (Some more documentation
will be available as soon as I upload the packages to the
grml-repos.)
* Split grml-etc into grml-etc-core: this provides the possibility
to use grml-etc-core (which ships only some core config files
for zsh, vim,...) on *plain* Debian (stable/testing/unstable)
systems without interference.
* Support truecrypt in our reboot/shutdown scripts (make sure no
mapped volumes are left behind).
* Check whether a swap partition is in use already and display
info message during boot process (instead of an error message).
* When running pump finished (which happens in background during
bootup) it writes "finished_running_pump" into
/etc/network/status/$DEVICE so you/we can check for it.
* Bugfixes, improvements in rebuildfstab and other grml-packages...
* Fixed the "Booting from external devices (SCSI/USB/Firewire)
does not work" issue.
Get it as long as it’s fresh and hot! :-)