14 DAY TRIAL // François Dupoux released a new version of the popular SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks, and the version of the OS is now 4.4.1.
SystemRescueCd was developed with a very precise purpose and that is to help users access a rescue disk that is able to run from bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. This is the kind of distribution that you only use after things have gone terribly wrong.
As usual, the developer has listed only the major changes to the OS, which means that some packages have been updated. The default Linux kernel implemented right now is 3.10.60 (rescue32 + rescue64), but there is a much newer one also available, 3.14.24. It's important to have a new kernel because this OS must be able to run on pretty much any kind of hardware and that can only happen if you have the latest kernel implemented.
Also, the developer has updated Gparted to version 0.20.0, which comes with some btrfs improvements, and some Python and Ruby packages has received upgrades as well.
For more details about the new features and changes, take a look at the official changelog. You can download SystemRescueCd 4.4.1 right now from Softpedia.
Please keep in mind that this is a Live CD, but it doesn’t boot into a desktop environment by default. Users will have to enter the startx command when the boot process has been completed.
