SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data.

System Rescue CD contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools).

It also includes QtParted, a Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitons easy with its Qt graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and accessible to everybody.

Here are some key features of "System Rescue CD":

· GNU Parted is the best tool for editing your disk partitions under linux
· QtParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux.
· Partimage is a Ghost/Drive-image clone for Linux
· File systems tools (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): they allow you to format, resize, debug an existing partition of your hard disk
· Sfdisk allows you to backup and restore your partition table

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Swapped the two kernel sources: standard-kernel and alternative-kernels
· Most drivers are compiled as module in the standard kernels (2.6.25.16)
· Most drivers are built-in the alternative kernels (2.6.25.14)
· Added development tools (gcc, make, ...) and gentoo tools (emerge, equery, ...)
· Added option nameif ("nameif=eth0!00:0C:29:57:D0:6E,eth1!00:0C:29:57:D0:64")
· Added support for backing-store loopback file systems (keep the changes)
· Added support for the speakup (support devices for blind people)
· Ability to install your own packages using the gentoo commands (emerge)
· Script sysresccd-cleansys which removes the optional packages (such as devtools)
· Added dev-util/geany-0.14 (lightweight but powerful text editor based on gtk2)
· Fixed problems with the qla2xxx fiber channel driver (compiled as module)
· Added Realtek network driver (RTL8111B/RTL8168B/RTL8111/RTL8168/RTL8111C)
· Changed option "vncserver=x:password" so that display 0 is not used by vnc
· Improved the default configuration of the graphical software in JWM
· Updated sys-fs/e2fsprogs to 1.41.0 (add support for the ext4 filesystem)
· Updated sys-fs/ntfs3g to 1.2812 (ntfs full read-write support)
· Updated app-admin/testdisk to 6.10 (testdisk-6.10 and photorec-6.10)
· Updated squashfs with lzma support (kernel driver and tools) to fix a bug
· Updated the btrfs filesystem support to 0.16 (kernel module and utils)
· Updated the python interpreter to dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r5
· Updated lvm2 (Logical Volume Manager) to 2.02.39
· Updated sys-block/gparted to 0.3.8
· Updated the freedos bootdisk image