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.
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
Tools Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds, making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included: Analyzer Bluetooth Cracker Database Development Exploit Footprint Forensics Forging Fuzzers Misc MitM Pentoo Proxy RCE Scanner SIP-VOIP Wireless
Releases Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates. Date Release 2005/06/22 Pentoo 2005.1 2006/02/02 Pentoo 2006.0 2006/07/05 Pentoo 2006.1 2009/12/04 Pentoo 2009.0 2012/07/30 Pentoo 2012.0 2013/03/09Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.1 2013/07/04Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.8 2014/08/08Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.9 2014/03/17Pentoo 2014.0 RC2.1 2014/08/08Pentoo 2014.0 RC32014/09/25Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.52014/11/16Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.62015/01/05Pentoo 2015.0 RC3.72015/12/02Pentoo 2015.0 RC4.62016/08/02Pentoo 2015.0 RC52018/03/26Pentoo 2018.0 RC6.32018/07/10Pentoo 2018.0 RC7.12019/01/17Pentoo 2019.0......2025/11/03Pentoo 2025.0
References
External links
Official blog
Shmoocon 2010 Firetalks Presentation: Pentoo BSides Delaware 2013 Presentation: Pentoo Report Bugs Working betas