SystemRescue 13.00 has been released. The SystemRescue distribution is a live boot system-rescue toolkit, based on Arch Linux, for repairing systems in the event of a crash. This release includes the 6.18.20 LTS kernel, updates bcachefs tools and kernel module to 1.37.3, and many upgraded packages. See the step-by-step guide for instructions on performing common operations such as recovering files, creating disk clones, and resetting lost passwords.
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Awesome tool!!
Posted Mar 30, 2026 19:07 UTC (Mon) by brian_lindholm (subscriber, #42351) [Link]
I've been using SystemRescue since the early SystemRescueCD days, and I've found it to be an extraordinarily useful tool. I've used it for data recovery on failed Windows systems, for transferring systems from HDD to SSD, for querying hardware and wiping drives on older systems that people want to refurbish, for testing memory with MemTest86+, for full-system backups to external HDs, and more. I've probably booted into it several hundred times over the years, and I'm really appreciative of all the work that François Dupoux has done to keep it going.
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