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BriGy86

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i've heard of Whax, Whoppix, Knoppix-STD, Auditor (all run off of a CD)
(and is there a new one that combines Whax and Auditor called Back Track?)

im wondering what one is the best, or what one the Linux Guru's use or recommend

or if certain distros are better at somethings what are each of the distro's strong points

as for the Back Track one, i've been to remote-exploit.org and the only one they have to download there seems to be the beta, is there any place i can get a stable version?
 
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Fish11

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Crap, I am so sorry about the blank posts. My browser hung and I didn't realize it was doing that. Hopefully they can be deleted. :(

Actually, from that link you gave, I've only heard of 2 of those distros so can't be much help there.

If you're new to Linux I would suggest starting out with an easy to use distro rather than worrying about a security one as they all run the Linux kernel.

I'm partial to SUSE myself.
 
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BriGy86

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Originally posted by: Fish11
Crap, I am so sorry about the blank posts. My browser hung and I didn't realize it was doing that. Hopefully they can be deleted. :(

Actually, from that link you gave, I've only heard of 2 of those distros so can't be much help there.

If you're new to Linux I would suggest starting out with an easy to use distro rather than worrying about a security one as they all run the Linux kernel.

I'm partial to SUSE myself.
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yeah i was thinking suse or ubuntu would be a good distro to install
(i like KDE so i downloaded Kubuntu CD's)
i had a problem running the live kubuntu CD though

but as for those distros that run off of CD's im really interested in the tools they have on them more than anything else
 
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I haven't looked at LiveCD's in light of security tools, but I'd guess Knoppix has the standard stuff. What tools are you looking for exactly?

edit: Also, is there any reason it has to be a LiveCD? You're always going to have more options if you use a "real" distro. Debian's got nearly 18000 packages - if you can't find a tool there, it probably doesn't exist.
 
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BriGy86

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Originally posted by: cleverhandle
I haven't looked at LiveCD's in light of security tools, but I'd guess Knoppix has the standard stuff. What tools are you looking for exactly?

edit: Also, is there any reason it has to be a LiveCD? You're always going to have more options if you use a "real" distro. Debian's got nearly 18000 packages - if you can't find a tool there, it probably doesn't exist.
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the live CD's have password cracking, wireless, sniffing, ip and mac spoofing, along with packet generating tools

i wouldn't do anything unethical with them im just curious about them:eek:

you said debian has many of those same tools?
how user friendly is it though?
 
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cleverhandle

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
you said debian has many of those same tools?
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Debian has everything. Pretty damn close at least.
how user friendly is it though?
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Not particularly. But if you're using all that stuff and still need your machine to be "user-friendly," then you're really just a script-kiddie, eh? :p

 
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n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
the live CD's have password cracking, wireless, sniffing, ip and mac spoofing, along with packet generating tools

i wouldn't do anything unethical with them im just curious about them:eek:

you said debian has many of those same tools?
how user friendly is it though?
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Those types of things should be available to just about any freenix. How boring.
 
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BriGy86

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: BriGy86
the live CD's have password cracking, wireless, sniffing, ip and mac spoofing, along with packet generating tools

i wouldn't do anything unethical with them im just curious about them:eek:

you said debian has many of those same tools?
how user friendly is it though?
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Those types of things should be available to just about any freenix. How boring.
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i see what your saying, i suppose it's just a matter of whether they come preinstalled with the instalation or not
 
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n0cmonkey

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
i see what your saying, i suppose it's just a matter of whether they come preinstalled with the instalation or not
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With yum, apt, yast, emerge, synaptic, etc. installing these programs should be easy peasy.

Hell, download qemu, use it to install a distro (if you figure out how to install from multiple cds let me know :p, but net installs work I did it the other night with OpenBSD), and test it out. If you do (and you're using Windows) I recommend this GUI manager for it. Simple, but classy.

I was originally hoping this thread would be some kind of discussion on the relative merits of PaX/GRE vs. LIDS vs. SELinux. :( :p
 
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BriGy86

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I was originally hoping this thread would be some kind of discussion on the relative merits of PaX/GRE vs. LIDS vs. SELinux. :( :p
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sorry but, :confused:
 
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