Pentoo Linux amd64 hardened 2015.0 RC3.7

Hardened 64bit Release From Pentoo!
Default Copy here



Why choose hardened:

You want hardened. No seriously, you want hardened. When was the last time you thought to yourself "I need less security in my pen-testing environment?" In all seriousness, nearly everything works in the hardened builds, and it is vastly more stable than anything you have ever used before with the added bonus of being more secure. You only want default if you are doing exploit against yourself, or you need opengl support. OpenCL and CUDA work fine in the hardened release, but right now, opengl support still eludes us. If you cannot live without opengl acceleration pick default, otherwise, you really want hardened.

From the Website:

Pentoo
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 installable livecd. Pentoo is also available as an overlay for an existing Gentoo installation. 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.

This guide provides information on:

Pentoo
Features
Tools
Which version do I want
Pentoo profiles and overlay
Releases
Download
Installation
Update
Who is behind it
References
Features
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the features currently included :

Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32bit
Includes the required environment to crack passwords using GPGPU with openCL and CUDA configured 'out of the box'
Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel (with extra patches) and toolchain
Backported Wifi stack from latest stable kernel release
Uses a pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard gentoo build
Module loading support ala slax
Changes saving on usb stick
XFCE4 wm
Support for full disk encryption with LUKs if installed on HDD
Automated installation
System updates if you got it finally installed
(...)it's basically a highly customizable Linux-based operating system and a meta-distribution. Using excellent development techniques, we have created a pre-configured security-focused or so called penetration testing LiveCD distribution that is built automatically from source code and is customized with the functionality that you want to have and without the unnecessary features that you want to avoid, with lots of customized tools, customized kernel, and much more.

Tools
Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds, making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:

pentoo/pentoo
pentoo/pentoo-analyzer
pentoo/pentoo-bluetooth
pentoo/pentoo-cinnamon
pentoo/pentoo-cracking
pentoo/pentoo-database
pentoo/pentoo-exploit
pentoo/pentoo-footprint
pentoo/pentoo-forensics
pentoo/pentoo-forging
pentoo/pentoo-fuzzers
pentoo/pentoo-gnome
pentoo/pentoo-installer
pentoo/pentoo-livecd
pentoo/pentoo-misc
pentoo/pentoo-mitm
pentoo/pentoo-mobile
pentoo/pentoo-proxies
pentoo/pentoo-radio
pentoo/pentoo-rce
pentoo/pentoo-scanner
pentoo/pentoo-system
pentoo/pentoo-voip
pentoo/pentoo-wireless
Which version do I want
More info: WhichVersion page.

Pentoo profiles and overlay
The Pentoo Linux features an overlay and profiles. "Overlays" are package trees for Portage. They contain additional ebuilds for Gentoo. Portage profiles specify default values for global and per-package USE flags and most variables of the /etc/portage/make.conf and define a set of system packages. Also it masks unstable package versions and USE flags. These techniques allow us to maintain capabilities of building a Linux-based operating system which inheriting all the Pentoo LiveCD goods and is a rolling release distribution which is essentially version-less once installed. Put simply, Pentoo is Gentoo with the pentoo overlay. This overlay is available in layman so all you have to do is

layman -L
layman -a pentoo
Among other ebuilds we have a pentoo/pentoo meta ebuild too. A meta ebuild is an ebuild that doesn't install files by itself, but instead it's used to install a group of other ebuilds with one command. It accomplishes this by having all this other ebuilds as dependencies.

We have multiple pentoo profiles, which will install all the pentoo tools based on USE flags.

amd64 pentoo/default/linux/amd64 stable
amd64 pentoo/default/linux/amd64/bleeding_edge dev
amd64 pentoo/hardened/linux/amd64 stable
amd64 pentoo/hardened/linux/amd64/binary dev
amd64 pentoo/hardened/linux/amd64/bleeding_edge dev

x86 pentoo/default/linux/x86 stable
x86 pentoo/default/linux/x86/bleeding_edge dev
x86 pentoo/hardened/linux/x86 stable
x86 pentoo/hardened/linux/x86/binary dev
x86 pentoo/hardened/linux/x86/bleeding_edge dev

arm pentoo/default/linux/arm/armv7a stable
arm pentoo/default/linux/arm/armv7a/bleeding_edge dev
arm pentoo/hardened/linux/arm/armv7a stable
arm pentoo/hardened/linux/arm/armv7a/bleeding_edge dev
arm pentoo/default/linux/arm/armv6j stable
arm pentoo/default/linux/arm/armv6j/bleeding_edge dev
More info: OverlayUsage page.

Releases
Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates.

Date Release
* 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
* ...
* 2014/01/18 Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.99 http://pentoo.blogspot.com/2...-and-other-things-which.html
* ...
* 2014/08/07 Pentoo 2014.0 RC3
* 2014/09/23 Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.5
* 2014/11/15 Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.6
* 2015/01/04 Pentoo 2015.0 RC3.7 http://pentoo.blogspot.com/2...too-release-shmoocon-11.html
Download
DownloadPentoo page.

Installation
Pentoo is a security-focused livecd, is a complete bootable installation including operating system which runs in a computer's memory, rather than loading from a hard disk drive. The functionality of a livecd is also available with a bootable live USB flash drive, or even an external USB drive.

The Pentoo dev-team also provides methods of installation on a local hard drive:

Pentoo can be installed directly from the livecd using our installer PentooInstaller
Pentoo can be installed using overlay OverlayUsage
Update
PentooUpdater page.

Who is behind it
Project People page.

References
Official about website
Official website
Overlay usage
Installation video
Official blog
Shmoocon 2010 Firetalks Presentation: Pentoo
BSides Delaware 2013 Presentation: Pentoo
Report Bugs
Wikipedia
Twitter @pentoo_linux