Pentoo

Pentoo Linux
Developer	Grimmlin (Michael Zanetta - founder), Zero_Chaos (Rick Farina), blshkv (Anton Bolshakov), Wuodan (Stefan Kuhn), Jensp (Jens Pranaitis)^[1]
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Active
Source model	Open source
Initial release	June 22, 2005 (2005-06-22)
Latest release	2012.0^[2] / July 30, 2012 (2012-07-30)^[3]
Update method	Emerge
Package manager	Portage with Pentoo overlay
Platforms	IA-32, x86-64
Kernel type	Modular (Linux)
Userland	GNU
Default user interface	Xfce4 WM from LiveCD, various
License	Free software licenses (mainly GPL)
Official website	www.pentoo.ch

Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64 bit installable livecd. Pentoo is also available as an overlay^[4] for an existing Gentoo installation. It features packet injection patched wifi drivers, GPGPU cracking software, and lots of tools for penetration testing and security assessment. The Pentoo kernel includes grsecurity and PAX hardening and extra patches - with binaries compiled from a hardened toolchain with the latest nightly versions of some tools available.

Features

Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32bit
Includes the required environment to crack passwords using GPGPU with openCL and CUDA configured 'out of the box'^[5]^[6]^[7]
Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain
Hardened kernel with extra patches^[8]
Uses a pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard gentoo build
Although the latest official release was 2009.0, there are still regular contributions and updates to the overlay to keep the distribution up to date. Update: 2012.0 Had been officially released July 30, 2012.^[9]
Support for full disk encryption with LUKs if installed on HDD
Automated installation^[10]

Tools

Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds,^[11] making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:^[12]

Analyzer
Bluetooth
Cracker
Database
Development
Exploit
Footprint
Forensics
Forging
Fuzzers
Misc
MitM
Pentoo
Proxy
RCE
Scanner
SIP-VOIP
Wireless

Releases

Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates.

Date	Release
2005/06/22	Pentoo 2005.1
2006/02/02	Pentoo 2006.0
2006/07/05	Pentoo 2006.1
2009/12/04	Pentoo 2009.0
2012/07/30	Pentoo 2012.0
2013/03/09	Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.1
2013/07/04	Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.8
2014/08/08	Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.9
2014/03/17	Pentoo 2014.0 RC2.1
2014/08/08	Pentoo 2014.0 RC3
2014/09/25	Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.5
2014/11/16	Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.6

^[13]^[14]

References

↑ "Developers". Retrieved 2015-07-18.
↑ "Pentoo". pentoo.ch. 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Index of /~zero/isos". pentoo.ch. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Overlay usage". Retrieved 2013-01-08.
↑ "Cuda,Stream,mpi,and Multiforcer". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Pentoo Updates". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Pentoo, another security distro". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Kernel Patches". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Timeline of Updates". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Installation video". Retrieved 2013-01-08.
↑ "SVN ebuild example". Retrieved 2011-04-10.
↑ "Menu Categories". Retrieved 2011-04-10.
↑ "Releases". DistroWatch.com. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
↑ "Index". Pentoo. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

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