The release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35 has been announced. The newest version of the live CD distribution comes with an upgraded underlying operating system, Debian Sid, an updated kernel and other changes.

“This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.5-35) includes major enhancements, changes and bug fixes... The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2010/Jul/20),” Steven Shiau wrote in the official announcement.

“Default to use VGA 800x600 for Clonezilla live. Since most of the netbook does not support 1024x768, and 800x600 is the common one for most of the computers, and it's good enough for Clonezilla live. Thanks for swdotnet for suggesting this,” he added.

Highlights of Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35:

· Linux kernel 2.6.32-17;
· Based on a recent build of Debian Sid;
· Partclone 0.2.11;
· Prep-ocsroot now works with sshfs/cifs paths containing spaces;
· Ocs-iso can now create ISOs larger than 4.5 GB;
· Default resolution set to 800 x 600.

About Clonezilla

The Clonezilla LiveCD is a minimal Linux distribution based on Partition Image, ntfsclone, DRBL and udpcast. It allows you to massively clone computers simultaneously. Unlike the Ghost for Unix/Linux LiveCDs (G4L/G4U), Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard drives, which increases the clone efficiency. The Clonezilla LiveCD was born to bring more power and competence to your hard disk partitioning and cloning tasks.

Clonezilla LiveCD supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, fat16, fat32, ntfs and hfs+. Therefore, you can clone Linux, Microsoft Windows and even Intel-based Apple Mac operating systems. For other filesystems, Clonezilla uses dd to dump the whole partition.

Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35 is available for download here on Softpedia.