Yesterday evening, on June 9th, Patrick Verner announced the immediate release of Parted Magic 4.3, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users easily partition their hard drivers or perform recovery tasks. Parted Magic 4.3 is here to fix some of the bugs found in previous releases, but it also brings updated packages and applications. "We also took some time to redo the artwork. Many thanks to Jason Vasquez for heading up this effort. I think it's the best looking version of Parted Magic yet!" - Patrick Verner said in the official release announcement. Without further introduction, here are the bugs fixed in Parted Magic 4.3:

· Fixed support for Reiser4;
· Fixed the msftres bug;
· Fixed SSH2 connections with gFTP;
· Fixed some keyboard bugs;
· Fixed the Clonezilla entry in LILO;
· Fixed Clonezilla/Samba password prompt bug;
· Fixed unmount issues with Clonezilla;
· Fixed boot issues with the HDD edition;
· Fixed other small bugs.

New packages in Parted Magic 4.3:

· chntpw
· nilfs-utils 2.0.12
· gdisk 0.2.2
· Adblock Plus 1.0.2

Updated packages in Parted Magic 4.3:

· Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
· udev 143
· Glib2 2.20.4
· GTK+ 2.16.4
· e2fsprogs 1.41.7
· Mozilla Firefox 3.5
· FireFTP 1.0.5
· Clonezilla 2.3.3-65
· p7zip 9.04
· Partclone 0.1.1-15
· ISO Master 1.3.5
· ROXTerm 1.15.1
· DRBL 1.9.4-45
· NDISwrapper 1.55

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 4.3 right now from Softpedia.