* Christoph Biedl [Mon May 08, 2017 at 11:41:26PM +0200]:
Michael Prokop wrote...
The first release candidate of the upcoming Grml version 2017.05, code-named 'Freedatensuppe' is available.
The Swiss edition will be sold as Flätlisuppe, I guess?
Hehe
For detailed information about the changes between 2014.11 and 2017.05 have a look at the official release announcement:
So I guess this release will, like Debian, no longer support older i386 CPUs? Then the release notes should mention that on some place. I'll try to test on K6 and C3 systems these days, this should fail, and hopefully in a sane way. Also, no worries, they are at least 15 years old now and demand a tremendous amount of pocket money.
Yeah, we don't modify/rebuild Debian's userspace tools and our kernel is based on Debian's. I don't have any such old systems though and don't know which CPUs are exactly unsupported now. So whoever knows what we should write in our release notes, please just create a PR or patch against https://github.com/grml/grml.org/blob/master/changelogs/README-grml-2017.05-... :)
A visual: At least the small i386 image prints a "[ FAIL ] amixer binary not availble" warning during boot. If it's easy to avoid that, please do so.
amixer is coming from alsa-utils, which would pull in ~8MB of additional disk space usage on grml-small, so probably not worth it. Should we just make it a warning instead of an error message, or do you suggest something else?
regards, -mika-