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R.I.P. 7.7 Is Powered by Linux Kernel 2.6.28.6

Also includes Advanced NTFS-3G Features and GRUB 2

Feb 18, 2009 15:19 GMT  ·  By
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We are proud to announce today yet another stable release of the popular R.I.P. (Recovery Is Possible) distribution. R.I.P. 7.7 comes with an update for Linux kernel, GRUB 2, FSArchiver and many more other packages. The new release also fixes a couple of GRUB bugs and adds the brand new Advanced NTFS-3G Features application. R.I.P. is a minimal Linux distribution based on the famous Slackware operating system. It can be used for system rescue, backup, recovery or maintenance purposes.

The following applications have been updated in R.I.P. 7.7: Linux kernel 2.6.28.6, WPA Supplicant 0.6.8, GRUB2 1.96+svn18-02-2009, Lzip 1.5 Pre 1, FSArchiver 0.4.2, Xterm 242, Magic Rescue 1.1.6, Tin 1.9.4, Nano 2.1.9 and NTFS-3G 2009.2.1AR.1 (Advanced NTFS-3G Features Branch).

Moreover, version 7.7 of the Recovery Is Possible distribution fixes a few bugs found in the grub2config aria2c packages, the latter being reverted to version 1.1.2.

Recovery Is Possible (R.I.P.) 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. The reiserfsck and fsck.reiser4 packages can be used to repair and check a Linux Reiser4 and Reiserfs filesystem. The xfs_repair package can be used to repair and check a Linux XFS file system. The jfs_fsck package is used to repair and check a JFS jfs file system. The e2fsck package can be used to repair and check the ext2 or ext3 file systems.

Among the included applications, we can notice: cdrecord/dvdrecord, mkisofs, dvd rw-format, growisofs, ntfsresize, mkntfs, lynx, mutt, fetchmail, pop3spam, popselect, ncftp, epic irc, tin, telnet, wget, naim, zgv, testdisk, smbclient, smbmount, ssh/sshd, rsync, udp-sender/receiver, lde, blesstivo, rtvpatch, chntpw, cmospwd, grub, grubconfig, smartctl, memtest86, captive-ntfs, ddrescue, dd_rescue, acpitool, dmidecode, hwinfo, lshw, ethtool.

R.I.P. 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. To boot and use the R.I.P. Live CD, you will need at least 256 MB of RAM and a 586 processor. It also includes a 32-bit and a 64-bit kernel.

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