14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Verner announced earlier today, October 13th, the immediate availability of Parted Magic 5.6, an operating system for partitioning tasks. The sixth maintenance version of Parted Magic 5 comes with the newly released GParted 0.6.4 application and the latest stable version of the Linux kernel.
Beside the usual bug fixes and updated applications, Patrick Verner added the Nouveau video driver for Nvidia graphics cards. The driver can be activated at the first boot screen, from the Fail Safe menu.
Moreover, the Systester package has been added, and a default password for the root account was set, for an easy usage of the SSH protocol.
"Parted Magic 5.6 includes some new features as well as bug fixes. The Nouveau Xorg driver was added and can be activated from the Fail Safe Menu at the first boot screen. Systester was also added. A default root password (partedmagic) has been added to make using SSH easier."
"I would like to give forum helpers Dukers and burdi01 a huge thank you for all the work they have done with the init scripts and most of the scripts in general. The Xorg configuration was reworked by these guys and has never worked better." - said Patrick Verner in the official release announcement.
The following applications were updated in Parted Magic 5.6:
· Linux kernel 2.6.35.7; · Gparted 0.6.4; · GDisk 0.6.11; · hdparm 9.33; · stress 1.0.4; · Unetbootin 490; · NTFS-3G 2010.10.2; · Busybox 1.17.3; · udev 163.
The following packages were added in the new Parted Magic 5.6 operating system:
· Systester 1.1.0
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 5.6 right now from Softpedia.