Parted Magic 5.10 Has Linux Kernel 2.6.37 and GParted 0.8.0

Patrick Verner announced yesterday, February 15th, the immediate availability for download of the Parted Magic 5.10 Linux distribution for partitioning tasks. The new release is powered by a new kernel and has lots of updated packages (see highlights for details).

The new Parted Magic 5.10 has been released just five weeks after Parted Magic 5.9 was announced on January 12th. It brings new applications, updated applications, a new kernel, a new web browser and a couple of fixes.

"It seems like it's been longer than a month, but it's time for a new release. The most notable changes are the Linux 2.6.37 Kernel, GParted 0.8.0, and the move back to Firefox as the default web browser." - said Patrick Verner in the official release notes.

The following packages were added in Parted Magic 5.10: RegLookup 0.12.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, ntp 4.2.6p3 (the ntp daemon will automatically start at boot). Moreover, the Chromium web browser was removed and "shred" issue in the "Erase Disk" menu was fixed.

Among other changes, we can mention that the boot/isolinux directory was replaced with the boot/syslinux directory and the syslinux.cfg file, and the /root/.conkyrc file has been moved to /etc/conky/conky.conf.

Highlights of Parted Magic 5.10:

· Linux kernel 2.6.37;
· GParted 0.8.0;
· FSArchiver 0.6.12;
· NTFS-3G 2011.1.15;
· gDisk 0.6.14;
· HDT 0.4.1;
· Conky 1.8.1;
· gzip 1.4;
· hdparm 9.37;
· xz 5.0.1;
· ms-sys-2.2.1;
· nwipe-0.04;
· SquashFS-4.1;
· libxml2-2.7.8.

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 5.10 right now from Softpedia.