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 live CD. Pentoo is also available as an overlay 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.

Key facts

OS.name: Pentoo Linux
OS.screenshot: Pentoo-screen.png
OS.caption: Pentoo Linux 2010.0
OS.developer: Grimmlin (Michael Zanetta - founder), Zero_Chaos (Rick Farina), blshkv (Anton Bolshakov), Wuodan (Stefan Kuhn), Jensp (Jens Pranaitis)
OS.family: Linux (Unix-like)
OS.working state: Active
OS.source model: Open source
OS.latest release version: 2024.0
OS.update model: Emerge
OS.package manager: Portage with Pentoo overlay
OS.supported platforms: IA-32, x86-64
OS.kernel type: Modular (Linux)
OS.userland: GNU
OS.ui: Xfce4 WM from LiveCD, various
OS.license: Free software licenses(mainly GPL)

via Wikipedia infobox

Source code

github.com →

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. The latest release of the Pentoo Livecd is the daily autobuilds (

Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,922 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website: www.pentoo.ch
Image: Pentoo-screen.png

Show 3 more facts

Commons category: Pentoo
inception: 2005-06-22
source code repository URL: git://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay.git

Sources (2)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Article

5 sections

Contents

Features
Tools
Releases
References
External links

== Features == Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32 bits 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 and toolchain Hardened kernel with extra patches Uses a Pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard Gentoo build Support for full disk encryption with LUKS if installed on HDD Automated installation