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.