The recovery Live CD now includes Linux kernel 3.18.10 LTS

Mar 30, 2015 05:55 GMT  ·  By

François Dupoux has announced today, March 30, the second maintenance release for his popular SystemRescueCd 4.5 Linux kernel-based Live CD operating system that can be used by system administrators for all sorts of system rescue and recovery tasks.

SystemRescueCd 5.4.2 is here with various updated packages and two new kernels. As such, the default Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 3.14.35 LTS for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The alternative kernel has been updated to version 3.18.10 LTS.

The newly released GParted 0.22.0 partition editor software has been added in the distribution, bringing support for unpartitioned whole disk drives and GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition names.

NetworkManager 1.0.0 is now in charge of the network connections when using the distribution in graphical mode. This is the latest stable release of NetworkManager and it introduces a great number of features and improvements over previous releases.

Lastly, the X.Org Server environment and drivers have been updated in this second point release of SystemRescueCd 4.5, to version 1.16.4. As usual, you can download SystemRescueCd 4.5.2 right now from Softpedia. More details can be found in the official changelog.