Only twelve days after announcing version 9.1, Kent Robotti released yesterday a new stable version of his popular R.I.P. (Recovery Is Possible) Linux distribution. R.I.P. 9.2 uses the Linux kernel 2.6.29.5, updates the SVN for GRUB 2 1.96 and comes with a development version of QEmacs 0.4.0 and the recently released Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 web browser.

Other applications that were updated in R.I.P. 9.2 are as follows: Partclone 0.1.1 (SVN Rev:304M), NTFS-3G 2009.4.4AR.12, Btrfs-progs 0.19, TrueCrypt 6.2a, Dump/Restore 0.4b42, Lzip 1.6, Ddrescue 1.11 RC3 and Lynx 2.8.7 Pre 6.

R.I.P. 9.2 offers support for the following filesystems: 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, EXT3 and EXT4 filesystems.

Among the included applications in R.I.P. we can notice: cdrecord/dvdrecord, mkisofs, dvd rw-format, growisofs, ntfsresize, mkntfs, lynx, mutt, fetchmail, popselect, pop3spam, ncftp, epic irc, tin, telnet, wget, naim, zgv, testdisk, smbclient, smbmount, ssh/sshd, rsync, udp-sender/receiver, lde, blesstivo, rtvpatch, chntpw, cmospwd, 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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