GParted News

The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.6.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Removed package cpufrequtils from lists of live system. It's not in the Debian repo anymore.
• Package pm-utils is included now. Thanks to Nono for this suggestion.
• Force to use zenity as the dialog in GParted live's program gl-screenshot. No more using gdialog or Xdialog since they are not available in Debian repo. Ref: GParted Live screenshot icon does nothing
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Sep/28)
• Linux image updated to 6.10.11-1
• A minimum of 512 MB of RAM is needed to use all the features of the GParted application

Note that the default boot options might fail to display an X Desktop, such as on old NVidia graphic cards. The workaround is to select Other modes of GParted Live and choose GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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The GParted team is proud to announce the twentieth anniversary of GParted.

The first public release of GParted was version 0.0.3 on August 26th, 2004. Over the past 20 years, much has happened. Following are some statistics:

• Over 282 people have contributed to GParted
• Available in over 60 different language translations
• Included in many GNU/Linux distributions
• Used in over 250 countries around the world
• Downloaded over 34 million times from SourceForge alone

To mark the occasion we asked a question and following are responses shared by some key contributors.

Why is GParted important to you?

Steven Shiau - This is the way I contribute to the FOSS world. I have learned many things from the maintenance of GParted live, and would like to keep learning from that.

Emmanuel Soundias - I met GParted soon after knowing Linux O.S. It was the 3rd year of GParted when I entered the team.

Along with the obvious utilitarian character for my personal computing needs, it allows me to help friends and family on a special non trivial subject.

GParted has been for me the initial step into the Free Open-Source software world. Although partitioning isn’t an every day’s subject, it helped me in some degree to better understand the software-hardware interaction.

Curtis Gedak - GParted enables me to follow my desire to contribute to the Free Software community.

Twenty years is a long time for a volunteer project to stay active.

I am proud of our team. I am proud of the graphical partition editor that we enhance, maintain and support.

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.6.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• xz-utils was reverted back to the 5.4.5-0.2 version
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Apr/08)
• Linux image updated to 6.7.9-2
• grub updated to 2.12-2

Note that the default boot options might fail to display an X Desktop, such as on old NVidia graphic cards. The workaround is to select Other modes of GParted Live and choose GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal).

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This is a notice that the GParted Forum is closing down near the end of March, 2024.

After this point in time the forum will cease to be available. If you have any posts you wish to keep then please copy the text of the post prior to the forum shutdown.

For many years, Jan Claeys has graciously hosted and managed the forum software. We thank Jan for his efforts and contributions to the GParted project.

We also thank Class413 for helping answer user questions and acting as forum moderator.

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.6.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Includes GParted 1.6.0:
  • Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right
  • Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID
  • Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart
• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2024/Feb/27)
• Linux image updated to 6.6.15-2

This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

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This release of GParted includes bug fixes and language translation updates.

Key changes include:

• Stop forcing 1 MiB gap when moving partition boundary right
• Fix crash when dealing with 0000-0000 exfat UUID
• Remove Attempt Data Rescue and use of gpart

See the Release Notes for more details.

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The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.

This release includes GParted 1.5.0, updated packages, and other improvements.

Items of note include:

• Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2023/Sep/03)
• Linux kernel updated to 6.4.13-1
• Fixed issue about no prompt for ejecting CD when rebooting/halting
• Increased minimum requirements to 384 MB of RAM

This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.

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