Yesterday evening, December 20th, Patrick Verner announced a new and improved version of his versatile Parted Magic, Slackware-based Linux distribution. Parted Magic 4.7 comes now with Linux kernel 2.6.32.2, Google Chrome, Partclone, and lots of updated applications, as well as bug fixes and improvements. Parted Magic is an operating system created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform various recovery tasks.

Highlights of Parted Magic 4.7:

· Linux kernel 2.6.32.2 with the squashfs-lzma compression;
· Added Partclone 0.1.9, due to popular demand;
· Replaced Xfburn and libburnia with simpleburn and cdrtools;
· Added LXMusic 0.4.0;
· Replaced util-linux with util-linux-ng;
· Replaced Mozilla Firefox with Google Chrome Beta;
· Repaired the Broadcom wireless drivers;
· Added lsof 4.78;
· Added workman 1.3.4;
· Added hddtemp 0.3 Beta 15;
· Fixed major issues in wireless scripts!

The following applications were updated in Parted Magic 4.6:

· boot_info_script 036;
· HDT 0.3.6;
· NTFS-3G 2009.11.14;
· OpenSSL 0.9.8l;
· udev 149;
· Coreutils 8.1;
· grep 2.5.4;
· module-init-tools 3.11.1;
· startup-notification 0.10;
· VTE 0.22.5;
· FreeType 2.3.11;
· Lftp 4.0.4;
· GParted 0.5.0;
· GTK+ 2.18.5;
· Openbox 3.4.9;
· FSArchiver 0.6.2;
· LXPanel 0.5.4;
· menu-cache 0.2.6;
· smartmontools 5.39
· libxml2 2.7.6
· Syslinux 3.84.

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 4.7 right now from Softpedia.