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Parted Magic 3.6 Has GParted 0.4.3

Splashy was removed, Live mode is back.

Feb 15, 2009 19:21 GMT  ·  By
Parted Magic 3.6
   Parted Magic 3.6

Today, for Valentine's Day, Patrick Verner decided to offer for download an improved and updated version of his very popular Parted Magic Live CD, a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed to help users with hard disk partitioning and recovery tasks. Parted Magic 3.6 is a special version, because Patrick Verner decided to completely change the way his distro boots and behaves. Therefore, he removed Splashy because it ate too much RAM and caused some weird behavior in ttys.

Patrick Verner also restored the highly requested "Live" option and added a "Live with low RAM settings" one in the GRUB boot menu (see the picture below for details). The latter will allow the use of Parted Magic on computers with no more than 128 MB of RAM. Moreover, Parted Magic 3.6 comes with a new application, called "mount-gtk," which changes the way the devices are mounted by offering an intuitive graphical user interface.

Last but not least, Parted Magic 3.6 fixes the way Parted Magic PXE works, corrects some grammar and menu errors and restores version 0.3.2 of the xfburn package, because 0.4.0 failed to correctly detect devices.

"When I was retooling the boot procedure I decided to remove splashy. It's [sic] looks good, but it's just eating-up RAM/space and causing strange behavior in the ttys." - said Patrick Verner in the official release announcement.

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Parted Magic 3.6 Boot Screen

New packages in Parted Magic 3.6:

· mount-gtk 1.0.1 · pmount_0.9.18 · pmagic_mount

Updated packages in Parted Magic 3.6:

· Linux kernel 2.6.28.5 · Gparted 0.4.3 · NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 · FSArchiver 0.4.1 · Hdparm 9.10 · e2fsprogs 1.41.4 · Syslinux 3.73 · KBD 1.15 · module-init-tools 3.6 · HAL-info 20090202

Parted Magic is a business-card operating system, based on Slackware Linux, with programs that allow you to partition hard disks with ease. Programs like Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, and a good documentation will help you in your partitioning tasks. Parted Magic is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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