Clonezilla Live 1.0.9. -19 (stable) has been Released

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition or disk clone software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. By using clonezilla, you can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

A few days ago, Clonezilla Live has been released on version 1.0.9. -19 (stable). This release is a bug fixed one with some minor updates. Here are :

• Bug fixed: memtest, freedos and etherboot were not listed in syslinux boot
• Bug fixed: cciss RAID device restoration was broken.
• Bug fixed: When "ocs-iso -s" or "ocs-live-dev -c -s" was run in Clonezilla live, etherboot and freedos image were not copied. Thanks to Spiros Georgaras.
• menu in clonezilla live zip file.
• Now syslinux related files are in /syslinux/.
• sdparm was added in Clonezilla live.
• Newer syslinux.exe is used now. Makeboot.exe is replaced by makeboot.sh so that USB flash drive will boot successfully with kernel under /casper/.
• Package zip and unzip were added.
• partclone 0.0.6 is used now so clone.fat is available.
• More descriptions were added in the boot menu.
• An option for VGA mode 640x480 was added so that it's easier for some PC, e.g. Asus Eee PC, to backup and restore in Chinese environment.

You can download Clonezilla at Here.

Synchronize your iPod with Banshee on Linux

Listen, rip, organize and burn with Banshee. Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux.

On top of that Banshee does a great job as a music player - importing/ripping CDs, organizing music, creating and managing playlists - and of course it is able to burn selected tracks back to CDs for "offline" listening.

Like many other music players on the market - Banshee also supports podcasting. And did I forget to mention that Banshee of course also is able to synchronize with other portable media players such as Creative Nomads, Dell DJs and more.

Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more. You can download the last version of Banshee at here.

Build your own Ubuntu based Live CD with Minibuntu!

You want to build your own Ubuntu based livecd, having the complete control over the installed software but you don't know where to start? Minibuntu is here to help you!

Minibuntu is a fully working Ubuntu livecd containing only the minimal set of software to make the system work. Minibuntu ISO image is only 138 MB.

After downloading minibuntu you can use Ubuntu Customization Kit, Reconstructor or any other tool to remaster the ISO and add the software or configurations you want, building your own Ubuntu based Live CD.

Minibuntu is an idea by CreaLabs and is not recognized, supported or sponsored in any way by Ubuntu and Canonical. This means that this is not an official Ubuntu project.

Btw, you can download minibuntu at here.

Linux LiveCD for repairing system and recovering data

A new major version of SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based distribution with focus on disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, has been released. What's new? SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

Major version 0.4 has been released. It adds major features:

• PXE Network booting
• Support for amd64/em64t architecture (x86-64bits processors)
• Support the the sparc architecture (Sun architecture)

System tools included

• GParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux.
• GNU Parted is the best text tool for editing your disk partitions under linux
• Partimage is a Ghost/Drive-image clone for Linux
• File systems tools (e2fsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, xfsprogs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, dosfstools): they allow you to format, resize, and debug an existing partition of your hard disk
• Ntfs3g: allows you to mount your Windows partition and get a full read/write unlimited access to the NTFS partition.
• Sfdisk allows you to backup and restore your partition table
• Test-disk tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others
• Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...)

You can browse the short system tools page for more details about the most important software included. You can also browse the detailed package list if you want to have a full list of the packages you can use.

Advanced uses

SystemRescueCd is available for blind people. Now, the linux speakup version 1.5 screen reader is working well, and the speakup keymap is installed. This feature was tested by Gregory Nowak.

Btw, you can download its ISO file here.