14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Verner, the creator of the once very popular Parted Magic disk partitioning, erasing and cloning, as well as data rescue and recovery Live CD based on GNU/Linux technologies, announced the availability of Parted Magic 2017_01_08.
It ships with the recently released Linux 4.9.1 kernel, which was recently marked as stable and ready for production by renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, as well as an updated graphics stack based on the X.Org Server 1.19.0 display server. Additionally, Parted Magic 2017_01_08 supports the ZFS file system.
"The kernel has been updated to Linux 4.9.1 with many video card fixes. We also added a few programs and made a few minor nitpicks most people didn’t even notice. I thought the 2016_10_18 release was going to be a problem because of all the updates. It was actually the best release ever and Parted Magic 2017_01_08 builds on that," said the dev.
A quick look inside the Parted Magic 2017_01_08 release
From the release announcement, it would appear that Parted Magic 2017_01_08 includes numerous updated and new components. Among the latter, we can mention BleachBit 1.12 system cleaner, x11vnc VNC server, Grub Customizer 5.0.6 GRUB bootloader customization tool, as well as the zerofree 1.0.4 and FSlint 2.44 utils.
Updated programs include BIND 9.10.4-P4, btrfs-progs 4.9, cURL 7.51.0, Gparted 0.27.0, hdparm 9.50, Mozilla Firefox 50.1.0, PCManFM 1.2.5, Python 2.7.13, Samba 4.4.8, TigerVNC 1.7.0, Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186, NTP 4.2.8p9, libfm 1.2.5, libpng 1.6.27, glibc-zoneinfo 2016j, and kernel-firmware 20170106git.
Unfortunately, Parted Magic is a commercial product, and in order to get your hands on the latest release, you'll have to pay $9 (€8.5). You can purchase Parted Magic 2017_01_08 right now from the developer's website, where you should find all the details you need to get started with this Linux-based system administration Live CD.