Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. It offers a good selection of applications and tools designed to perform penetration testing.
Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64 bit installable livecd. Pentoo is also available as an overlay 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 include:
- Kernel with wifi hacking related packages.
- Module loading support ala slax.
- Changes saving on usb stick.
- XFCE4 wm.
- OPENCL cracking support with development tools.
- System and security updates if you got it finally installed.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Xfce |
| Init Software: | SysV |
| Package Management: | Portage |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | i686, x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.pentoo.ch |
| Developer: | Grimmlin, Zero_Chaos, Anton Bolshakov (blshkv) |
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