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A Great HDD Partition Util, Now With Firefox

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

The new Parted Magic adds Firefox 3.5 and other cool features while stomping a few bugs.

A new version of Parted Magic, a Slackware-based Linux distribution, was release yesterday, fixing a few bugs and adding new packages such as Adblock Plus 1.02, gdisk 0.2.2, Firefox 3.5, and more. Parted Magic is an extremely handy toolset--or rather a "business card" operating system--to help users perform recovery tasks or partition hard drives. Parted Magic requires at least a Pentium 2 processor and 400 MB of RAM to operate, or 128 MB for "Live" mode. Adding Firefox now enables end-users to jump online straight off the "live CD.

In addition to the new features and bug fixes, the developers also upgraded the toolset's visual interface. "We also took some time to redo the artwork," said Patrick Verner. "Many thanks to Jason Vasquez for heading up this effort. I think it's the best looking version of Parted Magic yet!"

To download the 93 MB ISO, head here. Parted Magic is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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Ciuy 07/13/2009 11:46 PM
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wow

cruiseoveride 07/14/2009 12:31 PM
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This is very random for Toms

apache_lives 07/14/2009 1:17 AM
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i like chicken

WheelsOfConfusion 07/14/2009 4:00 AM
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So basically the only news is that a Linux-based recovery CD got Firefox 3.5 before the Long Term Service version of Ubuntu did?

computabug 07/14/2009 4:18 AM
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Just another reason why I love open source stuff, expecially gnu linux :)


No crappy proprietary policies stopping quality code from being written... *cough* Microshit *cough*

Humans think 07/14/2009 9:31 AM
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That is really helpful if you have only one pc, but most guys that do this kind of stuff use a second computer via lan to transfer files and do the appropriate research

TwoDigital 07/14/2009 8:24 PM
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parted is a cool utility, but this article is incredibly random. It would have been much more useful to make an article that's EQUALLY random about something that more people would care about... maybe something like, "Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc3 is now available"?