Friday, December 17, 2010

Gnacktrack = [Gnome + BackTrack]

There is a new penetration testing Live CD in the market. It's called GnackTrack,  made solely for the Gnome lovers. GnacktrackR3 is based on Ubuntu 10.10. There are other penetration testing Live CD like BackTrack, DVL etc. BackTrack is the most well known name with in penetration testing community. Gnacktrack sounds like Backtrack but it's based on Gnome.
The story goes like this (quote from faq),

Many of us have heard of BackTrack but just struggle to get on with KDE. Many people prefer Gnome based linux distributions and thus GnackTrack was born. Originally GnackTrack was created by adding Gnome on top of BackTrack and stripping the KDE parts but this proved to be extremely painful OUCH!!! There was a lot of "junk" left over so it was decided to build a gnome based penetration cd from the ground up.
With Ubuntu being one of the most popular distributions it made sense to base GnackTrack on that, especially because the 10.04LTS had a long support life.
What to call it???? Well, being as we wanted to base this on BackTrack it made sense to call it GnackTrack. It's just stuck. This distro also uses the BackTrack repo's so it's only fair to pay respect to the RemoteExploit guys for all they're hard work.
So GnackTrack uses Backtrack repository, that a great news for Gnome users because Backtrack has a great list of amazing tools. The OS is just in incipient stage & lacks some basic features. Most bugs are fixed in this new release.The live cd is also present in VMware format for download.

Download links:
Live CD | Vmware Image

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