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The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators. Now release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities. Kcpentrix is based on SLAX 5, a Slackware live Dvd. The Powerful modularity which Kcpentrix uses, allow us to easily customize our version, and include whichever modules we need. KCPENTRIX 2.0 is the most inovative and promising KCPENTRIX ever. It switched to 2.6 kernel line. Zisofs compression was replaced by SquashFS, which provides better compression ratio and higher read speed.

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Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO live CD based on Fedora Core 6. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools.

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Gparted Live CD provides the ability to have Partition Magic-type control for free. You can manage and clone partitions, plus a whole lot more. . The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD uses Xorg, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel. The CD also offers the following programs: parted and fdisk vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Terminal and Midnight Commander. And also tool to make screenshots. GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a celeron 500mhz or better.

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KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk.

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The Honeywall CDROM is a bootable CD that copies all the functionality of a Honeywall onto a hard drive. It comes with all the tools and functionality for you to implement data capture, data control, and data analysis. It creates an architecture that allows you to deploy both low-interaction and high-interaction honeypots within it. The purpose of the Honeywall CDROM is to make it easier to deploy, manage, and derive value from honeynet technologies. The CDROM supports several configuration methods, including an interactive menu and .iso customization scripts. The CDROM is an appliance, based on a minimized and secured Linux OS.

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Arudius is an information assurance (IA) Linux live CD with tools for penetration testing and vulnerability analysis. Information assurance has many other aspects besides network security. The CD consists of a Zenwalk Linux base on top of which a large collection of network security testing software (full list) has been installed – including tools listed on Insecure.org Top 75 list plus many other tools listed on Freshmeat, Sf.net and other information assurance sites around the world.

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BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. It’s evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions Whax and Auditor Security Collection. BackTrack has a long history and was based on many different linux distribution until it is now based on a Slackware linux distribution and the corresponding live-CD scripts. Every packet, kernel configuration and scripts are optimized to be used by security penetration testers. Patches and automatism have been added, applied or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment.

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Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. You can still boot into a customized Linux environment that includes customized linux kernels, excellent hardware detection and many applications dedicated to Incident Response and Forensics. Helix has been modified very carefully to NOT touch the host computer in any way and it is forensically sound. Helix wil not auto mount swap space, or auto mount any attached devices. Helix also has a special Windows autorun side for Incident Response and Forensics.

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