| Bootable system rescue Linux CD gets updated |
Mar. 02, 2007
The Gentoo-based SystemRescueCD 0.3.3 live CD was released on March 1, sporting a spiffy new 2.6.19.2 kernel and the WMaker desktop environment. As its name implies, SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM that can be used for repairing a system and its data following a crash.
SystemRescueCD also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.
It contains both advanced system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, etc.) and basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the CD-ROM, and a user can do everything, the France-based project team said in the release announcement.
The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660), and network ones (Samba and NFS), the team said.
Key new changes or features in v0.3.3, according to the project team, include:- updated ntfs3g to 1.0
- GParted to 0.3.4
- TestDisk to 6.6
- Memtest+ boot disk to 1.70
- updated the system (glibc 2.5, udev 104, ClamAV 0.90, mdadm 2.6)
- updated Oscar (French tool to backup computers)
- added option 'forcevesa', and changed DefaultDepth for X.Org
- added Foremost (program to recover files)
- added bc (calculator)
- fixed hang problems at boot time
For more details on changes in this new edition, see the changelog, located here.
The 121 MB iso image is available for download here (direct link to iso file), as well as from the project's download page, here.
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