Pentoo 2012.0 Beta2 Released

Pentoo 2012.0 Beta2 Released on Wednesday 06 September 2012 by Zero_Chaos

The Pentoo Team is pleased to announce the second public beta of Pentoo 2012

After coming down from the high of Defcon, while still excited about upcoming Derbycon, we have finished another release. All bugs possible have been addressed since the defcon beta, fetch the latest and enjoy the welcome surprises. Please check the blog (look right) for further details. (still 64 bit only for now, sorry)

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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 livecd. 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' ^[4]^[5]^[6]
Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain
Hardened kernel with extra patches - ^[7]

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 30th, 2012. ^[8]

Support for full disk encryption with LUKs if installed on HDD
Automated installation

[edit]Tools

Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds^[9], making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:^[10]