credit: Benwall
In these last few days there were rumors about deft attitude to alter the suspect computer’s swap partition under REALLY rare conditions. After several tests we noticed that this behavior is caused by a bug in the Linux swap mount feature: Linux, in a PC with less than 98mb of RAM memory, active [...]

credit: sint
We are pleased to announce the final release of DEFT v4.
A big step from DEFT v. 3 and, we hope, a small step forward for the open source computer forensics community
The most relevant changes are:

More fast and much compatible with all x86 systems
Based on Xubuntu 8.10
Kernel 2.6.27
Dhash 1.1
Xplico 0.6
Sleuth kit 3
Autopsy 2.20
Afflib 3.3.4
Guymager
dc3dd
Linen
Dreport [...]

First beta closed (DEFT v4 beta 4) release only for tester.