SystemRescueCD 1.0.0 has been released yesterday. It is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution, with a large number of hard disk partitioning and data rescue applications.

From this edition, programs will be compiled for i486 processors and not for i686 or higher, allowing users with older computers to run the applications. A new alternative kernel, altker64, for 64-bit architectures was added, and the alternative one for 32 bit was renamed altker32.

Graphical environment problems that appeared on some hardware are now fixed, by the addition of Xvesa. Here are the rest of the changes included in this release:

• Merged all the old initramfs igz files into a single initram.igz file
• The PXE boot can now download the sysrcd.dat file using the tftp protocol
• Rewrote autorun with support of the http source (can execute scripts from http)
• Fixed problems with the network configuration boot options (ethx, dodhcp, gateway)
• Updated the default kernel to Linux-2.6.24.02 with Reiser4 (rescuecd + rescue64)
• Updated the alternative kernel to Linux-2.6.22.18 (altker32 + altker64)
• Removed the framebuffer from the default kernel (it can disturb Xorg)
• Updated app-admin/testdisk to 6.9 (testdisk-6.9 and photorec-6.9)
• Updated sys-block/gparted to 0.3.5 (bug fixes and stability release)
• Updated sys-fs/ntfs3g to 1.2216 (ntfs full read-write support)
• Compiled the hard disk controllers support as module in the alternative kernels
• Renamed the 'boothttp=url' and 'boottftp=url' to netboot='url'
• Removed the "cdroot" boot option (from linuxrc, isolinux.cfg, syslinux.cfg)
• Compiled the CCISS driver as built-in to improve the HP Smart Array support
• Improved the wireless network support (drivers and firmwares)
• When options 'docache' and 'lowmem' used together it does not cache the bootdisks
• Added sys-fs/scrounge-ntfs-0.9 (Data recovery program for NTFS file systems)
• Added sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus and sys-apps/sg3_utils (SCSI utils)
• Added sys-block/lsiutil-1.52 (LSI Logic Fusion MPT command line management tool)
• Added the GPT-disklabel support and CCISS support to grub-0.97
• Added sys-block/mbuffer (tool for buffering data streams)
• Added support for btrfs-0.12 (kernel and utils)
• Added the atl2-1.0.4 network driver (Attansic/Atheros L2 network driver)
• Added support for loop-aes (encrypted loopback block device driver + utils)
• Fix: process the network boot options before autorun (it may need the network)
• Fixed name resolution that was broken in the pxe boot process due to libc
• Updated the memtest86+ floppy disk image to 2.00 (memtestp boot entry)

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