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Jestersage
October 23rd, 2009, 01:34 AM
Now that I have a good laptop (IBM T40, yay) I can atcually install a penetration oriented OS. The problem is that i have three choice:
a) BackTrack (Ubuntu based, but moving to Debian)
b) nUbuntu (Ubuntu based, duh)
c) Use the installed 9.04 and install all good security penetration package. No idea what to install.

Can someone which distribution will be the best method? If c), can you also please tell me what are the good tools for security penetration/hacking?
__p1n__
October 23rd, 2009, 06:04 AM
Considering your option c comment (no idea what to install) I would suggest option a.
jayhags
October 23rd, 2009, 10:12 AM
I ran across this blog post the other day...

http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/nubuntu-flavor-in-ubuntu.html

looks like you can do b) and c)
ukripper
October 23rd, 2009, 12:37 PM
Or try this - http://anonymityanywhere.com/incognito/
Sarmacid
October 23rd, 2009, 12:45 PM
I would go with backtrack since it's got a lot of the good stuff already installed.
ApEkV2
October 23rd, 2009, 03:33 PM
Considering your option c comment (no idea what to install) I would suggest option a.

awesome
edenCC
October 23rd, 2009, 11:20 PM
I'd choose BT as well. It's more dedicated than the other ones. What you need to do should be to get familiar with it.
update_manager
October 24th, 2009, 02:01 PM
Now that I have a good laptop (IBM T40, yay) I can atcually install a penetration oriented OS. The problem is that i have three choice:
a) BackTrack (Ubuntu based, but moving to Debian)
b) nUbuntu (Ubuntu based, duh)
c) Use the installed 9.04 and install all good security penetration package. No idea what to install.

Can someone which distribution will be the best method? If c), can you also please tell me what are the good tools for security penetration/hacking?

What are you trying to test? A database? Mail servers?
cprofitt
October 25th, 2009, 12:21 PM
BackTrack -- the question is do you want to install or use a LiveCD.
Jestersage
October 25th, 2009, 06:27 PM
BackTrack -- the question is do you want to install or use a LiveCD.

Thanks to everyone. Seems like that will be the option. And I will be installing it.

What are you trying to test? A database? Mail servers?

My own network and anything I can get my hand on (with consent of course). It's for education purpose ultimately.
update_manager
October 25th, 2009, 07:38 PM
My own network and anything I can get my hand on (with consent of course). It's for education purpose ultimately.

I'd recommend Ubuntu + Backtrack and a usb key to transfer files. Backtrack wins in number of tools, but some of them are older versions and can't be updated easily.