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.
SystemRescueCd 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.
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Here are some key features of "SystemRescueCd":
· 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 ]
· Updated standard kernels to Long-Term-Supported linux-3.2.16 (rescuecd + rescue64)
· Updated alternative kernels to latest stable: linux-3.3.5 (altker32 + altker64)
· Updated btrfs-progs from Fedora 17 sources (btrfs-progs-0.19-19.fc17)
· Updated xfs filesystem tools: xfsprogs-3.1.8 and xfsdump-3.1.0
· Updated system packages: gcc-4.4.7, openrc-0.9.8.4, portage-2.1.10.49
· Updated OpenSSH to 5.9_p1-r4 and partclone to 0.2.47
· Added debian and redhat package management tools (dpkg, debootstrap, rpm)
· Updated sysresccd-pkgstats script to avoid warnings
· Updated list of graphical programs used by sysresccd-cleansys
· Removed GObject introspection data to save space