Kent Robotti announced today that last release of his R.I.P. Live CD, a Slackware-based CD that can be used for system rescue, backup, recovery or maintenance purposes. "This will be the last release from me, it should be useful for awhile. It's licensed under GPL, anyone can do whatever they want with it without my permission. My email address is closed." - he said on the R.I.P.'s official homepage. We have no idea why Mr. Robotti decided to drop the development of R.I.P., but we sure hope that a new developer will take over from here and continue to release new versions of this helpful rescue CD.

The following applications have been updated in R.I.P. 7.4: Linux kernel 2.6.28, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5, memtest86+ 2.11, fsarchiver 0.2.5, fuse-zip 0.2.7, rsync 3.0.5, udev 135, xorriso 0.3.1, Truecrypt 6.1a, xfburn 0.4.0, nano 2.1.7, fetchmail 6.3.9, cdrskin 0.5.9, lzip 1.3, xfsprogs 2.10.2, hdparm 9.6, grsync 0.6.2, gFTP 2.0.19, cdrtools 2.01.01a55, GNU fdisk 1.1, foremost 1.5.5, lftp 3.7.7, lynx 2.8.7dev.12, tcpdump 4.0.0, wpa_supplicant 0.6.6, aria2c 1.1.2, tar 1.21, xterm 238, zip 3.0, Sylpheed 2.6.0, aespipe 2.3e, squashfs-lzma 3.4, biew 5.7.1.

The following applications have been added in R.I.P. 7.4: sleuthkit 3.0.0, magicrescue 1.1.5, iscsitarget 0.4.15, mdcp 0.1.2, recoverjpeg 1.1.2.

R.I.P. (Recovery Is Possible) offers support for the following file systems: Reiserfs, Reiser4, ext2, ext3, ext4, iso9660, Udf, Xfs, Jfs, Ufs, Hpfs, Hfs, Minix, Ms Dos, NTFS, fat32, fat16. It also contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery tasks and support for IDE/SCSI/SATA, PCMCIA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE networks.

Download R.I.P. Linux 7.4 right now from Softpedia.