Just ten days after the Valentine's Day release, Patrick Verner announced today the immediate availability of his Parted Magic 3.7 Linux distribution. This new version fixes several bugs, adds some new features and updates a few software packages.

The developer fixed a scripting error in the package installer that wouldn't allow multi-package installs. The G4L (Ghost for Linux) was fixed by adding /mnt/local and several fixes and features were added to the wipe and mount scripts. The code used for booting ISOs directly through GRUB4DOS was remerged after the last round of changes. Another remerged code is the one used to force devices at boot with uuid= and label=. A bug that prevented launching web links embedded in GTK applications' about dialogs was fixed. XFCE files were added to make the help in screenshooter work. Also, the "unnamed window" was fixed in conky.

The updated packages for Parted Magic 3.7 are:

· hdparm-9.11, a command line utility for setting and viewing HDD parameters;
· util-linux-ng-2.14.2, a random collection of Linux utilities;
· Linux kernel 2.6.28.7;
· coreutils-7.1 (only dd, cp, shred, split, stty);
· Ddrescue 1.10, a data recovery tool;
· Firefox 3.0.6 is the default web browser;
· FireFTP 1.0.4, the latest Mozilla Firefox FTP client;
· lshw-B.02.14, a tool that extracts detailed hardware information;
· di-4.13.

About Parted Magic

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).

Download Parted Magic 3.7 right now from Softpedia.