Pentoo Linux 2010.0 |
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| Company / developer | Grimmlin (Michael Zanetta), Zero_Chaos (Rick Farina), Jensp (Jens Pranaitis) [1] |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Active |
| Source model | Free and open source software |
| Initial release | June 22, 2005 |
| Latest stable release | 2009.0 [2] / [3] |
| Update method | Emerge |
| Package manager | Portage with Pentoo overlay |
| Supported platforms | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Modular (Linux) |
| Userland | GNU |
| Default user interface | Enlightenment E17 WM from LiveCD, various |
| License | GNU General Public License, others |
| Official website | http://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 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.
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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]
Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates.
| Date | Release |
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| 2005/06/22 | Pentoo 2005.1 |
| 2006/02/02 | Pentoo 2006.0 |
| 2006/07/05 | Pentoo 2006.1 |
| 2009/12/04 | Pentoo 2009.0 |