Parted Magic 5.10 Has Linux Kernel 2.6.37 and GParted 0.8.0

Posted by hanuca on Feb 16, 2011 8:46 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Patrick Verner announced yesterday, February 15th, the immediate availability for download of the Parted Magic 5.10 Linux distribution for partitioning tasks. The new release is powered by a new kernel and has lots of updated packages.

The new Parted Magic 5.10 has been released just five weeks after Parted Magic 5.9 was announced on January 12th. It brings new applications, updated applications, a new kernel, a new web browser and a couple of fixes.

The following packages were added in Parted Magic 5.10: RegLookup 0.12.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, ntp 4.2.6p3 (the ntp daemon will automatically start at boot). Moreover, the Chromium web browser was removed and "shred" issue in the "Erase Disk" menu was fixed.

Among other changes, we can mention that the boot/isolinux directory was replaced with the boot/syslinux directory and the syslinux.cfg file, and the /root/.conkyrc file has been moved to /etc/conky/conky.conf.

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