Emergency Linux: SystemResuce 12.00 comes with bcachefs support

Version 12.00 of the Linux distribution SystemRescue has been released. It allows administrators to access data and repair the system after a system failure. Version 12.00 is now based on the Linux kernel 6.12.19, which will receive long-term support until the end of 2026. With the kernel update, SystemRescue also receives support for the bcachefs copy-on-write file system, which can now also be managed in the system tools and applications such as GParted.

Data rescue for Windows and Linux

In addition to bcachefs support, SystemRescue also supports other Linux kernel file systems, including ext4 and btrfs. Ntfs3g is on board the distribution so that system repair and data recovery are also possible for Windows installations. It allows write access to Microsoft's proprietary NTFS. For network backups, SystemRescue also includes support for Samba and the Network Filesystem.

In addition, SSH and remote desktop connections can be established and files can be synchronized with cloud storage such as S3 and Ceph. The toolkit also has hardware diagnostics programs that can be used to check processors, memory and data carriers. Administrators can also reset Windows passwords. As a live distribution, SystemRescue starts from a USB stick or DVD. Alternatively, a fixed installation is possible. In addition to pure terminal operation, it comes with the Xfce 4.20.1 desktop environment.

With the update, Mozilla Firefox is updated to version 128.8.0 in the Extended Support Release, which will be supported until September 16, 2025. The distribution also includes a workaround for display problems in grub and updates for the hard disk utilities GParted 1.7.0, nwipe 0.38 and dump 0.4b49. All new features of the Arch Linux fork can be found in the changelog. SystemRescue is an open source project licensed under GPLv3 and is currently available for x64 systems.

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