Tuesday, November 4. 2008
grml release candidate 1 of version ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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I'm proud to be able to present release candidate 1 of the upcoming stable release 2008.11 - available in all the different grml flavours. New features? Tons of new features! Including an update of grml-small - and we even provide a 64bit version of grml-small now!
Release Notes for grml 2008.11[-rc1] - codename "Schluchtenscheisser"are available online.
The following flavours are available from the devel directory of grml's mirrors:
grml_2008.11-rc1.iso 667M grml-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 178M grml-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 75M grml64_2008.11-rc1.iso 687M grml64-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 187M grml64-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 77MKnown issues of 2008.11-rc1 can be found in the grml-wiki. Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases to you soon! Have fun with grml. Monday, October 27. 2008
new develreleases: version 2008.10.26 Posted by Michael Prokop
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The new develreleases I just released contain several small updates, fixes and a kernel based on 2.6.26.7. I expect this to be last the devel release before releasing rc1 of version 2008.11. Working on release-notes, docs and testing.
Wednesday, October 1. 2008
Migration from Mercurial to Git Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Migration from Mercurial to GitOver the last few weeks the grml team evaluated the distributed version controll systemGit. Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Read the wikipedia article on Git to get an (not so short) overview. Grml used to work with the distributed version controll system Mercurial and officially announced its use on October 18th, 2006. The way Mercurial worked was great for us and at that time it definitely was the best solution for our needs. We provided detailed documentation for our setup (see grml.org/mercurial/) and developed our own utils for working with Mercurial and Debian packaging (grml-mercurial-utils). Special thanks to the Mercurial developers - we highly appreciate all your help! But we had to re-evaluate the situation as time passed:
So whereas Mercurial used to work just fine for us in most cases Git provides the better approach for us nowadays. Current state Thanks to our hg-to-git tools the migration itself took less than 1 hour and all repositories have been migrated from hg.grml.org to git.grml.org. By today (1st of october 2008) the grml mercurial repositories are deprecated and the official place for grml's sources is git.grml.org. The mercurial hosting will be deactivated within the next few weeks. All the documentation and scripts of grml are being updated to reflect the changes and updated URLs but it has not been finished yet. So if you find something still mentioning hg.grml.org instead of git.grml.org please let us know, thanks! As usual we provide documentation about our setup and tools:grml.org/git/ We highly appreciate any help, corrections and further feedback. Special thanks to Michael Gebetsroither for his work and help on migrating. Sunday, September 28. 2008
new devel releases: 2008.09.28 Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new devel releases: 2008.09.28After a long delay we finally have new develreleases (yeah!): grml / grml-medium / grml64 / grml64-medium, version 2008.09.28. Quoting the main changelog:
Wednesday, June 25. 2008
news from the grml development front Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) news from the grml development frontFirst of all sorry for the long time without any news in the grml develblog. Busy weeks, sorry. In the last few weeks main work besides some bugfixing was providing a stable daily-grml service. Now we are waiting for the soon to be released stable version of the 2.6.26 linux kernel. Our plan is to provide a new development release featuring kernel 2.6.26 as soon as possible. New stable versions of grml should be available in august then. BTW: On 23rd and 24th of august some grml developers will visit FrOSCon, a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time in Sankt Augustin/Germany. We plan to make a grml booth as well as a coming-together-hacking-event. Hope to see you there! Thursday, March 20. 2008
infrastructure: migration of ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) infrastructure: migration of wiki.grml.orgJust a short note regarding our infrastructure: wiki.grml.org just moved (from host with IP 80.237.145.9) to a new system (new IP: 87.230.9.1). The TTL in DNS was set accordingly for the last few days so you shouldn't notice any noteworthy downtimes. Saturday, March 8. 2008
JFYI: comments in the develblog Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) JFYI: comments in the develblogJFYI: Sorry to the ones of you asking questions in the grml develblog and not getting any answer. Due to a misconfiguration I never received any notifications about new, added comments. I found a workaround for the misconfiguration of supersized.org's mail notification so this issue should be fixed and I won't overlook any comments from now on. Sorry again, wasn't my intention. Monday, February 25. 2008
new stable releases: grml 1.1, ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new stable releases: grml 1.1, grml64 0.2, grml-medium 0.1 and grml64-medium 0.1We have new stable releases: grml 1.1, grml64 0.2, grml-medium 0.1 and grml64-medium 0.1 Friday, February 15. 2008
JFYI: release stopper for grml 1.1 ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) JFYI: release stopper for grml 1.1 [fixed]We have a new release stopper, see issue 400 in grml's BTS. Current grml release candidate doesn't boot on older hardware. We are investigating on that issue, please read the according thread on the syslinux mailinglist for further details. If you you have an affected system as well ("my box does not boot with grml 1.1-rcX but does with grml 1.0") please let us know! Update: Thanks to Andrea Mayr and Wernfried Haas for testing lots of ISOs we could locate the problem finally. Read my mail on syslinux mailinglist for details. Now we are working on finalizing the ISOs and do some last regression tests. If murphy does not catch us again we will release the stable version this weekend. Friday, December 28. 2007
new release candidates: grml ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new release candidates: grml 1.1-rc1, grml64 0.2-rc1, grml[64]-medium 0.1-rc1Finally it's done - we have new release candidates:
Summarizing the development of more than 7 month of development for the release notes was a pretty tough job. 7 month you might ask? Yes, for the first time we have a longer delay than the usual ~3 month between two stable releases. The reason is simple: we wrote a new build framework named grml-live and reworked the build process therefore. Thanks to grml-live we are able to autobuild grml-ISOs in several different flavours and on different architectures without the need for any further manual interaction. This allows us to provide automatically generated daily snapshots of grml to the public (as you might know already). Now we have the first releases of grml being based on the work of grml-live. Enjoy! Friday, December 21. 2007
update of daily.grml.org and ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) update of daily.grml.org and development newsThe webpage of daily.grml.org has been reworked - thanks to the ideas and feedback by Henning Sprang. The page is more clearly arranged now so hopefully you'll find the according ISO even faster. :) If you have any further ideas how to improve the webpage please let me know! Disclaimer: the daily builds are not really up2date right now because we are pretty close to a new stable release now... anyway, I'll provide updated builds soon again... Some news from the development front: I'm busy working on the new stable releases. Hopefully I'll be able to provide release candidates really soon now and the final stable releases should be available within the next 1-2 weeks as well. The are only a few last release stoppers left... Sunday, December 9. 2007grml-live: ZLIB vs. LZMAI just made some benchmarks between ZLIB and LZMA compression at squashfs, thanks to grml-live (which provides a commandline option and config option for switching) that's a trivial task now:
So whereas the build time increases the benefit is a smaller ISO, which is quite important for live systems that want to ship as many useful tools as possible. :-) Tuesday, November 27. 2007
New team member: Alexander Steinböck Posted by Michael Prokop
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Alexander 'z3ttacht' Steinböck joined the grml-team. Alexander contributed several patches (especially regarding configuration and documentation) over the last few weeks. Welcome in the grml team, Alexander!
Monday, November 26. 2007
news from the development front Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) news from the development frontNo, we aren't in holidays, instead we are busy working on a new stable release. Lots of development took place at the grml-live framework front, we have a big kernel upgrade (see grml-kernel repository for details or just grab the Debian packages from the grml-testing repository) which involves support for speakup (thanks to feadora's speakupmodified.org). We also have support for lzma within squashfs in our toolchain now. A first release candidate of a new stable release of grml will be available soon.... Thursday, October 18. 2007Daily grml snapshotsIn the last few weeks I've been busy working on grml-live (the build framework based on FAI for generating a grml and Debian based Linux Live system). As generating a new grml-ISO using grml-live can be done with one single command(!) we could finally build an autobuild system which generates daily snapshots of grml. Thanks to hosting by formorer and jimmy we can provide a wide range of different flavours of grml now:
That's not all. We provide all these versions in a 32bit version (grml) as well as in a 64bit version (grml64). But stop! We even provide all the versions in a Debian/stable based and a Debian/unstable based version. So you can choose your favourite grml-ISO from a total of 3x2x2 = 12 different ISOs. They are available from daily.grml.org and are built full automatic on a daily base. This should help us in tracking down possible problems in Debian packages as well as keeping the truck factor in our team as low as possible and improve quality management furthermore. On the other side users can get brand new software for testing, or if they need a special feature (like a brand new kernel version) they can get it without the need for waiting for a new devel-/stable-release. So just grab the current snapshot for testing from daily.grml.org, or if you want to build your own Linux live-cd based on Debian and grml consider the use of grml-live. |
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