The distro is stil based on the Debian Sid repos

May 27, 2015 04:00 GMT  ·  By

Steven Shiau, the creator of the Clonezilla Live and GParted Live projects, has made available a new version of the GParted Live distro, as announced on May 26 by Curtis Gedak.

GParted Live 0.22.0-2 is the first release of the well-known Live CD built around the powerful, open-source Gparted disk partitioning tool to use Linux kernel 4.0 (the actual version used is Linux kernel 4.0.2-1).

Being based on the Debian Sid repository as of May 22, 2015, GParted Live 0.22.0-2 has been improved to enable booting on UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) computers when the ISO image is written onto a bootable medium with the dd command, by implementing the "isohybrid --uefi" option.

"The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live," says Curtis Gedak on behalf of the GParted Live Team. "This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMWare, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics."

As its version number suggests, GParted Live 0.22.0-2 is still being based on the GParted 0.22.0 partition editor software. It's just a second maintenance release that adds better support for UEFI systems.

Download GParted Live 0.22.0-2 right now from Softpedia, where you will find Live CD ISO images for 32- (PAE and non-PAE) and 64-bit architectures.