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Parted Magic 4.6 is a mostly a bug fix release with some usability improvements.
Key changes:
- Many fixes and changes for Netbooks.
- GNU Parted bug "ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!" is fixed.
- Parted Magic Save Session uses xz instead of 7-zip.
- Clamav was added, but you have to download the definitions yourself. There is an entry in the panel's application launcher to automate the download. The definitions are downloaded to /root/clamav, so they will be saved in root.xz when you use Save Session.
- Flash Player can be downloaded and installed from the panel's application launcher.
- epdfview was added so people can read hardware manuals that normally come in pdf format.
- A simple program to change the keyboard layout was added to the desktop.
- A new program added (lxrandr) to re-size the display while running inside of Xorg.
- Roxterm was replaced by an svn version of LXTerminal.
- The syslinux menus were redone to add more options and break things down into sub-menus. The boot menu is far less intimidating now. Device Mapper RAID and Linux Software RAID have been moved to RAID options for automatic assembly at boot time. Device mapper is no longer automatically started at boot.
- Super Grub Disk 1 & 2 are both included now from the syslinux "Extras" sub-menu.
- <numlock> is no longer on by default.
- sleep=10 boot option has been removed. Parted Magic's boot script is now smart enough not to need this.
- A slew of fixed bugs and program updates can be found in the changelog.
If Parted Magic saves you time and makes your computing experience
better, take a minute to donate $2. This project is funded almost
entirely by donations. You don't need a PayPal account to donate. You
can use a credit card or e-check through PayPal without actually
opening a PayPal account. There is also the option of sending a letter with cash, check, money order, or hardware. My address is on the donations page.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:36 )
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 19:26 |
Download: pmagic-4.5.iso.zip (79.0MB, MD5)
This new version of Parted Magic updates the graphical server Xorg, expands networking, improves RAM usage, and fixes some bugs.
To combat some of the problems associated with the newer versions of Xorg and Intel chipsets, Parted Magic offers driver versions intel-2.4.1, intel-2.5.1, intel-2.6.3, intel-2.7.1 to the boot options. At the first boot screen press <TAB> and then add one of the listed drivers to the syslinux command line. Parted Magic will then install them while the system is booting. Most people will not have to do this because the default intel-2.8.1 driver fixes most problems from previous releases. I would also like to thank Jason Vasquez, Dukers, and verndog for all the testing with the Intel video drivers.
There is a new PPPoE option added to the "Start Network" program. PPPoE connections are now easy to establish.
RAM usage has been significantly reduced for the "Default settings (Runs from RAM)" and "Live with low RAM settings" boot options. The default option only requires 192MB, from 256MB in version 4.4, to completely run Parted Magic from RAM. The biggest gain was with the low RAM option because that now only requires 48MB to run. As far as we know, Parted Magic can run graphical GParted with less RAM than any other Live Distribution out of the box.
This is a list of fixed bugs from the forum entries: Listing devices by uuid, dhclient dirty trick, Adding beep functionality, update for Fsarchiver and ntfs-3gAR, How do you set up a PPPoE internet connection?
These programs have been updated: xorg-server-1.6.3, busybox-1.14.3,
glibc-2.9, hdt-0.3.4, gparted-0.4.6, pigz-2.1.5, e2fsprogs-1.41.9, drbl-1.9.4-53, partclone_0.1.1-16, TrueCrypt 6.2a,
openssl-0.9.8k, vte-0.20.5, openssh-5.2p1, slang-2.1.4, libxml2-2.7.3,
ncurses-5.7, gtk+-2.16.6, glib-2.20.5, linux-2.6.30.6,
gsmartcontrol-0.8.5, fsarchiver-0.5.9, ntfs-3g-2009.4.4AR.17,
firefox-3.5.3, safecopy-1.6, adblock-1.1.1, gdisk-0.4.1
New programs added in this release: bluez-utils-3.36, bluez-libs-3.36, bluez-hcidump-1.42, ntfsdump_logfile, ntfswipe,
ntfstruncate, ntfsmove, ntfsmftalloc, ntfsck, rp-pppoe-3.10, beep,
stress-1.0.1, lzip-1.8
If Parted Magic saves you time and makes your computing experience
better, take a minute to donate $2. This project is funded almost
entirely by donations. You don't need a PayPal account to donate. You
can use a credit card or e-check through PayPal without actually
opening a PayPal account.
Download: pmagic-4.5.iso.zip (79.0MB, MD5)
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:36 )
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