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kernel 2.6.31-grml[64]

After busy development days the kernel 2.6.31-grml and 2.6.31-grml64 entered the grml-testing pool today. This kernel version is based on upstream’s 2.6.31-rc9 and features the squashfs file format version 4 with lzma support. Please note that you need squashfs-lzma-tools 4.0-1 for remastering with grml-live if you plan to use LZMA compression. grml-live has been adjusted to be as backwards friendly as possible. Check out ‘current state of grml-live with squashfs-tools and kernel’ for further details if you plan to build your own ISOs. An updated live-initramfs 1.157.3-1grml.00 package is available as well. Starting with tomorrow (2009-09-08) the daily builds of grml should feature kernel 2.6.31-grml[64] already. This means we are coming closer to a new stable release…