Patrick Verner released the latest version of Parted Magic Live CD. Parted Magic is a Live Slackware-based Linux distribution designed to help users with hard disk partitioning and recovery tasks. Parted Magic gets an all new avatar with the modern user interface design you can check it on the screenshots given below. The “Live” option is back and Parted Magic runs on a machine with 128MB of RAM. There is also a “low memory” option that disables unnecessary daemons to speed up systems that only require trivial tasks, like running …

This release of Parted Magic includes many new features and updated programs. The first thing you might notice is the dramatic increase in size. We are now using a squashfs image instead of a 7zip archive. This once again allows for a “live” option for older computers. Parted Magic doesn’t use any additional RAM with the default boot option, the compression was just decreased. With the Linux 2.6.28 kernel comes the first stable ext4 file system release. We are using a highly tested SVN version of GParted to give you …