François Dupoux announced earlier today, December 7th, the immediate availability of the SystemRescueCd 1.3.3 operating system. This brand-new release of the tiny, Gentoo-based Linux distribution for system administrators and data recovery tasks is now powered by the Linux kernel 2.6.31.6, with an updated Btrfs filesystem, from Linux kernel 2.6.32. Moreover, GRUB-Legacy and GRUB2 boot loaders were updated to version 0.97 and 1.97.1, respectively. Parted 1.9.0 was patched to fix many issues and GParted was updated to the new and improved 0.5.0 release. A few other important updated packages and improvements are also present in SystemRescueCd 1.3.3. Let's have a quick look at the main changes since SystemRescueCd 1.3.2:

· Updated the standard Linux kernel packages to version 2.6.31.6 (with an updated Btrfs filesystem, from Linux kernel 2.6.32);
· Updated GRUB2 boot loader to version 1.97.1;
· Updated GRUB-Legacy boot loader to version 0.97;
· Parted 1.9.0 was patched, in order to fix various issues (GParted bug 601574);
· GParted was updated to version 0.5.0, which adds support for Linux software RAID;
· Fixed some bugs in dmraid 1.0.0 RC16 (Gentoo bug #275451).

About SystemRescueCd

SystemRescueCd is a Linux Live CD operating system that offers an easy and quick way to repair systems and recover data after serious crashes. With utilities ranging from disk diagnostic mechanisms (such as TestDisk and sfdisk) and partition managers, to basic, day-to-day applications (like text editors, Midnight Commander, etc.), SystemRescueCd also provides support for all important filesystems, including the Btrfs and EXT4 ones. SystemRescueCd is a solution that anyone who is experiencing data loss or other system-related problems should consider using.

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