14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Verner, Parted Magic creator and main developer, has announced the availability of the latest Parted Magic 4.9. It is mostly a bug-fixing release, but there are several new packages and some big changes as well. Google Chrome has been replaced with Chromium, the open-source alternative, and support for old IDE drivers was removed in Parted Magic 4.9 from the Linux kernel which is now at version 2.6.32.9.
"People didn't like that we were using Chrome, so we switched to Chromium. All the old IDE drivers were removed from the kernel and only the new framework is used now. The major difference most people will notice is that devices that used to be labeled /dev/hd* will now be /dev/sd* and all CDROMs will be /dev/sr*. Three new programs were added, mhdd, elinks, and zsync. Some changes were made to the kernel config and initramfs so virtio hard disks could be used to boot Parted Magic. The fstab daemon was also fixed to support virtio hard disks. Many other small fixes were made to the network scripts and the system in general," Patrick Verner wrote in the official announcement on the homepage.
Updates in Parted Magic 4.9:
· Linux kernel 2.6.32.9; · Rsync 3.0.7; · FSArchiver 0.6.8; · GLIBC 2.11.1; · ISO Master 1.3.7; · Udev 151, · OpenBOX 3.4.11; · Simple Burn 1.4.0; · Fontconfig 2.8.0, · Dosfstools 3.0.7, · gDisk 0.6.4, · GTK+ 2.18.7, · Lsscsi 0.23, · LXMusic 0.4.2, · Boot Info Script 048; · DHCP 4.1.1; · Gparted 0.5.2; · PCIutils 3.1.6; · TestDisk 6.12-WIP; · Grsync 1.0.0; · Parted 2.2; · PIGZ 2.1.6; · Smartmontools 5.39.1; · Util-linux-ng 2.17.1; · E2fsprogs 1.41.11; · GLib 2.22.4; · Iozone 3 338; · LXPanel 0.5.5; · Menu-cache 0.3.2; · NTFS-3G 2010.3.6; · Partclone 0.2.0; · Syslinux 3.85; · UDPCast 20100130; · D-Bus 1.2.16; · HAL 0.5.14; · HAL-info 20091130;
Parted Magic 4.9 is available for download here on Softpedia.