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)

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== 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