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Pentoo : The PenTesting Distribution


Pentoo is a Linux Live CD designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo and Enlightenment, Pentoo includes Nessus and Metasploit for penetration testing and security assessment. Pentoo can boot off a CD or USB flash drive.Pentoo supports package modularity in the same fashion that Slax does. The goal is to be fast , liteweight and as up to date as possible.The latest devlopment code, exploits are added to Pentoo's Metasploit Framework.
 The Name
Pentoo is designed for Penentration Testig and is based on Gentoo = Pentoo Live CD There are two versions of downloadable CD : -- Pentoo 2005.1 - This version is about 408mb, WM is gnome2.8 and have a lot more prohrams than Mini Edition -- Mini-Pentoo 2006.1 - This version is 208mb. Features a little bit of tools for pentesting and support. -- Pentoo 2009.0 - 02/25/2009 Already released.Check Howto Boot Pentoo LiveCD 2009 for Newbies.
 Development
Behind Pentoo Project there are two developers . Their nicknames are :
1.Zero_Chaos
2.grimmlin
The friendly and helpful delelopers can be reached in #pentoo @ irc.freenode.net.
 Installation
By today 29.May.2009 there are installation instructions available on the official Website.
For more information please visit the official Website


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