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10 Best Security Live CD Distros

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-leave-home-without-it dept.

Ant writes to tell us Darknet has a summary of the ten best LiveCD distributions dealing with security. With links to download and a little information about each one." An great overview of some handy tools, some you know and probably a few you don't.

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  1. Backtrack rules... by Daxster · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used Auditor extensively in the past year or so, and played around with Slax. Slax is buggy and definitely lacking polish, but it's modular system of scripts and packages make it perfect for a combination of whoppix and Auditor. Now if only proper ndiswrapper modules were included...

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  2. slashdotted top ten by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. BackTrack
    2. Operator
    3. PHLAK
    4. Auditor
    5. L.A.S Linux
    6. Knoppix-STD
    7. Helix
    8. F.I.R.E
    9. nUbuntu
    10. INSERT Rescue Security Toolkit
    Extra - Knoppix

  3. Re:At least read the title of the articel by GomezAdams · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenBSD and FreeBSD have live distros. Don't know about NetBSD. Google is your friend.

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  4. OliveBSD? by wick3t · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although it's not a linux distribution, surely any live CD based on OpenBSD deserves a mention!

  5. Re:How about "Live USB Key" distros? by farker+haiku · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out http://slax.linux-live.org/, it's a 185 MB distro. Or you can roll your own.

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