The developer has added a number of new packages

Nov 21, 2014 18:56 GMT  ·  By

Parted Magic is a Linux distribution that features numerous tools for disk management, such as GParted and Parted. It’s one of the best distros of its kind, but also a commercial OS.

The developer of Parted Magic changed the way the OS is distributed and it’s now a commercial OS, which is rather unusual. Still, it’s one of the best of its kind and it has a lot of users and fans.

“The long awaited WxFixBoot by Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty has been release as stable and is now part of Parted Magic. This program is very similar to the well-known Boot_Repair program for Ubuntu,” says the developer in the official announcement.

The dev has also explained that, with the addition of Guvcview, users will now have access to webcams and the Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.17.3, which is a much newer build.

Distributions such as this one need to always integrate the latest kernel available because they should be able to run on any hardware they might encounter, and that can only be achieved with very new kernels that have the best driver support possible.

Check out the complete list of changes and improvements on the official website. You can download and purchase Parted Magic 2014.11.19 right now from Softpedia.