Parted Magic

Parted Magic
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Screenshot of Parted Magic in 2023
DeveloperPatrick Verner
Parted Magic LLC.
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Initial release8 January 2007 (17 years ago) (2007-01-08)
Latest release2024_09_13[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 18 October 2016; 8 years ago (18 October 2016)
Available inEnglish
Platformsx86-64 (IA-32 previously supported)
Kernel typeLinux (Monolithic)
Default
user interface
Xfce (previously Openbox) [2]
Official websitepartedmagic.com

Parted Magic is a commercial Linux distribution based on Slackware that comes with disk partitioning and data recovery tools.[3] It is sold as a Linux-based bootable disk.[4][5][6] The distribution's nomenclature is derived from the names of the GNU Parted and PartitionMagic software packages.

  1. ^ https://partedmagic.com/news/. Retrieved 19 October 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Nestor, Marius (13 October 2020). "Parted Magic Distro Switches to Xfce Desktop, It's Now a Full 64-Bit System". 9to5Linux. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  3. ^ Bärwaldt, Erik. "Fixing Disks with Parted Magic". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  4. ^ Parting is such sweet sorrow – The Optimistic Contributor's review of Parted Magic, LWN.net
  5. ^ Parted Magic 3.7|linuxsysconfig
  6. ^ PartedMagic: A Swiss Army Knife for Hard Drive Resuscitation|Reviews|TechNewsWorld