Developer | Grimmlin (Michael Zanetta - founder), Zero_Chaos (Rick Farina), blshkv (Anton Bolshakov), Wuodan (Stefan Kuhn), Jensp (Jens Pranaitis) [1] |
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OS family | Linux ( Unix-like) |
Working state | Active [2] |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | June 22, 2005 |
Latest release | 2019.1 / January 17, 2019 |
Repository | |
Update method | Emerge |
Package manager | Portage with Pentoo overlay |
Platforms | IA-32, x86-64 |
Kernel type | Modular ( Linux) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | Xfce4 WM from LiveCD, various |
License |
Free software licenses (mainly GPL) |
Official website |
www |
Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. [3] [4] [5] [6] Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64-bit installable live CD. Pentoo is also available as an overlay [7] for an existing Gentoo installation. It features packet injection patched Wi-Fi drivers, GPGPU cracking software, and many 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.
Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds, [13] making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included: [14]
Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates.
Date | Release [15] |
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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 |
2012/07/30 | Pentoo 2012.0 |
2013/03/09 | Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.1 |
2013/07/04 | Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.8 |
2014/08/08 | Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.9 |
2014/03/17 | Pentoo 2014.0 RC2.1 |
2014/08/08 | Pentoo 2014.0 RC3 |
2014/09/25 | Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.5 |
2014/11/16 | Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.6 |
2015/01/05 | Pentoo 2015.0 RC3.7 |
2015/12/02 | Pentoo 2015.0 RC4.6 [16] [17] [18] |
2016/08/02 | Pentoo 2015.0 RC5 |
2018/03/26 | Pentoo 2018.0 RC6.3 |
2018/07/10 | Pentoo 2018.0 RC7.1 |
2019/01/17 | Pentoo 2019.0 |