14 DAY TRIAL // François Dupoux announced a new release of his popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks, marking the launch of the 4.1.0 version.
SystemRescueCd is a very famous Linux distribution that has been developed with a single purpose in mind, to be a system rescue disk that is able to run from bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. As the name implies, this OS is only useful after your computer has already crashed and you really need the data.
“It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers,” reads the official website.
SystemRescueCd 4.1.0 features some important changes and improvements, but the most significant is the promotion of a new Linux kernel, 3.10.32, for both the 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The Linux kernel branch is LTS (long term support), so it's very probable that the SystemRescueCd Linux distribution will continue to use it for some time.
An alternative Linux kernel has been added, 3.13.5 (altker32 + altker64), which is almost the newest one released until now.
According to the changelog, the NBD client has been updated in initramfs to sys-block/nbd-3.2 (Network Block Device) and the NTFS filesystem has been updated in the userspace driver to sys-fs/ntfs3g-2014.2.15. This particular update should be very helpful for booting and solving problems on Windows operating systems, which are using the NTFS file system.
Also, the squashfs-tools have been updated to sys-fs/squashfs-tools-4.2_p20140119, the perl language package has been updated to dev-lang/perl-5.16.3, and the sys-auth packages (polkit, pambase, consolekit) have been updated, the fsarchiver has been updated to version 0.6.19 (a rather important bug fix release), and OpenRC has been updated to version sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4.
The developers of SystemRescueCd have updated the “Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor floopy image” tool to a much newer version, 2014-02-01, which should provide additional support for the latest Windows versions.
The Gparted component wasn't forgotten and has been updated to a much newer release, 0.18.0, and the fsarchiver 0.6.18 tool has been implemented.
For more details about the new features and changes, take a look at the official changelog. Download SystemRescueCd 4.1.0 right now from Softpedia.