Yesterday, August 3rd, two Linux recovery operating systems received minor updates: my favorite, RIPLinuX (10.7) and another OS which I wrote about a while ago, Parted Magic (5.2). The changelog files show these new releases include bug fixes, minor enhancements and updated versions for the main packages (e.g. partitioning tools). Changelog for RIP LinuX: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/Changelog [...]
Yet another recovery OS has been updated this month. SystemRescueCD 1.5.8 is a minor update (the 2nd release in 3 weeks) to provide new standard kernels (2.6.32.16), alternative kernels (2.6.34.1) and a new version of the gparted package. Although I’m not a big fun of it (I prefer RipLinux) I wanted to give it a [...]
Fedora 11 Alpha came out a month ago, 2 days later than the initial schedule, and it has recently entered its “Feature Freeze” state. Codenamed Leonidas, Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 25th and it includes a large number of new features (most of them have already been approved). I’ve been using [...]
Yet another Slackware-based Linux distro! Parted Magic, aka “The Linux CD Partitioning Tool”, is a Live OS packed with recovery tools that you can use to troubleshoot your system. About 3rd release this year (2nd this month) maintenance release (a few bug fixes and several updated packages) different versions available (ISO, HDD, PXE, USB, GRUB4DOS) [...]
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