14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Verner announced today the immediate availability of Parted Magic 4.0, a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed to help users with hard disk partitioning and recovery tasks. Parted Magic 4.0 is, once again, a special version... because Patrick Verner decided to change its appearance and to introduce fantastic features, such as:
· Device Mapper RAID partitioning support; · Replaced initrd with initramfs; · Ability to boot TWM, Xvesa and Gparted at 800x600x4 with the "Low RAM" option; · Reduced the size of the ISO image to about 70 MB; · Ability to "Save Session" with the ISO CD image (the operation requires a CD-RW); · initramfs can be merged for module installation, in the PXE version; · Ability to load .deb packages at boot time.
"I can't say enough how grateful I am for this new computer you all have given me! I can compile a kernel in 15 minutes compared to an hour with my 8 shiny Intel i7 processors." - said Patrick Verner in the official release announcement.
New packages in Parted Magic 4.0:
· Btrfs 0.17 · Btrfs-progs 0.18 · NDISwrapper 1.54 · TrueCrypt 6.1a · Multipath-tools 0.4.8.
Updated packages in Parted Magic 4.0:
· GParted 0.4.4 · File 5.0.0 · NTFS-3G 2009.3.8 · FSArchiver 0.4.6 · Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 · Xfburn 0.4.1 · Xfce4-Screenshooter 1.5.1 · xfsdump 3.0.0 · xfsprogs 3.0.0 · Udev 140 · hdparm 9.13 · Cairo 1.8.6 · glibmm 2.18.1 · Pango 1.22.4 · cairomm 1.8.0 · GTK+ 2.16.0 · pangomm 2.14.1 · Glib 2.20.0 · gtkmm 2.14.3 · mount-gtk 1.0.3 · lsscsi 0.22 · Lftp 3.7.10 · LVM2 2.02.45 · Tar 1.22 · libburn 0.6.4.pl00 · libisofs 0.6.16 · dc3dd 6.12.3.
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 4.0 right now from Softpedia.