Athena OS is an Arch-based and Nix-based distribution intended to build a new concept of pentesting operating system. Its purpose is to offer a different experience than the most used pentesting distributions by providing reproducibility, flexibility, isolation, and only those tools that fit with the user needs and improving the access to hacking resources and learning materials.
Athena OS provides pentesting tools classified by Cyber Roles. Each role consists of a Cyber Security domain where the several tools are distributed on. These tools are continuously maintained in order to improve the efficiency of their usage and kept updated for getting a cleaned and secured environment.
The distro takes a minimalist approach, as well as allowing deep customization of system configurations, enabling pentesters to tailor the environment to specific testing requirements.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Xfce |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Pacman |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | athenaos.org |
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