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Old 04-28-2009, 06:14 AM   #1
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up to date Linux security/intrusion testing, etc distro's?

What are the best, current distro's for like hacking, anti hacking, stuff like that?
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Old 04-28-2009, 07:19 AM   #2
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Fedora IMHO
 
Old 04-28-2009, 07:22 AM   #3
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that's alot of bloat-
Smaller distro's is what I meant...
 
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Which specialized distros have you tried so far?
 
Old 04-28-2009, 08:19 AM   #5
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Just, like, the rescue cd's, as most of the intrusion/security distro's (hakn9) are old and/or unfindable...

I looked at livcd list, etc lots of serches but most are huge(600+MB) backtrack, etc
 
Old 04-28-2009, 11:43 AM   #6
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backtrack and/or DVL are going to be your best bet
 
  


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