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Mini-Pentoo is a mini LiveCD distribution generated from Pentoo Linux. Here are some key features of "Mini Pentoo": · net-analy

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 213152K
Developer: NETwork Security Consortium
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Mini-Pentoo is a mini LiveCD distribution generated from Pentoo Linux.

Here are some key features of "Mini Pentoo":
net-analyzer amap 5.1 A network scanning tool for pentesters
net-analyzer dsniff 2.3-r7 A collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing
net-analyzer ethereal 0.10.14 A commercial-quality network protocol analyzer
net-analyzer ettercap 0.7.3 A suite for man in the middle attacks and network mapping
net-analyzer hping 2.0.0_rc3-r1 A ping-like TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer
net-analyzer ike-scan 1.8 A utility for finding, fingerprinting and testing IKE VPN servers
net-analyzer libnasl 2.3.1 A remote security scanner for Linux (libnasl)
net-analyzer metasploit 2.5 The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using vulnerability exploit code.
net-analyzer nbtscan 1.5.1 NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information
net-analyzer nessus 2.3.1 A remote security scanner for Linux
net-analyzer nessus-core 2.3.1 A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-core)
net-analyzer nessus-libraries 2.3.1 A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-libraries)
net-analyzer nessus-plugins 2.3.1 A remote security scanner for Linux (nessus-plugins)
net-analyzer netcat 110-r8 the network swiss army knife
net-analyzer nikto 1.35 Web Server vulnerability scanner.
net-analyzer nmap 4.00 A utility for network exploration or security auditing
net-analyzer p0f 2.0.5-r1 p0f performs passive OS detection based on SYN packets.
net-analyzer thcrut 1.2.5 Network discovery and fingerprinting tool
net-analyzer xprobe 0.2.2 Active OS fingerprinting tool - this is Xprobe2
net-analyzer yersinia 0.5.5 Yersinia is a framework for performing layer 2 attacks
net-dns bind-tools 9.2.5 bind tools: dig, nslookup, and host
net-firewall firehol 1.226-r1 iptables firewall generator
net-firewall iptables 1.3.4 Linux kernel (2.4+) firewall, NAT and packet mangling tools
net-ftp ftp 0.17-r3 Standard Linux FTP client with optional SSL support
net-ftp oftpd 0.3.7-r1 Secure, small, anonymous only ftpd
net-im gaim 1.5.0 GTK Instant Messenger client
net-irc xchat 2.4.5 Graphical IRC client
net-libs libnet 1.0.2a-r3 library to provide an API for commonly used low-level network functions (mainly packet injection)
net-libs libnet 1.1.2.1-r1 library to provide an API for commonly used low-level network functions (mainly packet injection)
net-libs libnids 1.18 emulates the IP stack of Linux 2.0.x and offers IP defragmentation, TCP stream assembly and TCP port scan detection.
net-libs libpcap-ringbuffer 1.0.20041001 A libpcap version which supports MMAP mode (ringbuffer) on the linux kernel 2.[46].x
net-mail mailbase 1 MTA layout package
net-misc dhcpcd 2.0.0 A DHCP client only
net-misc etherwake 1.09 This program generates and transmits a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) Magic Packet, used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state).
net-misc iputils 021109-r3 Network monitoring tools including ping and ping6
net-misc netkit-fingerd 0.17-r2 Netkit - fingerd
net-misc netkit-rsh 0.17-r6 Netkit’s Remote Shell Suite: rexec,d rlogin,d rsh,d
net-misc openssh 4.2_p1 Port of OpenBSD’s free SSH release
net-misc rdesktop 1.4.1 A Remote Desktop Protocol Client
net-misc rsync 2.6.0-r6 File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
net-misc telnet-bsd 1.2 Telnet and telnetd ported from OpenBSD with IPv6 support
net-misc wget 1.10.2 Network utility to retrieve files from the WWW
net-nds portmap 5b-r9 Netkit - portmapper
net-wireless acx100 0.3.23 Driver for the ACX100 and ACX111 wireless chipset (CardBus, PCI, USB)
net-wireless aircrack 2.41-r1 WLAN tool for breaking 802.11 WEP keys
net-wireless airsnort 0.2.7 802.11b Wireless Packet Sniffer/WEP Cracker
net-wireless at76c503a 0.12_beta23-r2 at76c503 is a Linux driver for the wlan USB adapter based on the Atmel at76c503 chip. It currently supports ad-hoc mode, infrastructure mode, and WEP. It supports adapters from Atmel, the Belkin F5D6050, Netgear MA101, and others.
net-wireless atmel-firmware 1.3 Firmware and config for atmel and atmel_cs wlan drivers included in linux 2.6
net-wireless bluediving 0.3 Next generation bluetooth security tool
net-wireless bluez-firmware 1.0 Bluetooth Broadcom Firmware
net-wireless bluez-libs 2.19 Bluetooth Userspace Libraries
net-wireless bluez-utils 2.19 Bluetooth Tools and System Daemons for using Bluetooth under Linux
net-wireless btscanner 2.1 A utility for bluetooth scanning and discovery supporting multiple dongles
net-wireless gkismet 0.0.10 Gtk perl based client for Kismet
net-wireless hostapd 0.4.7-r1 IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN Host AP daemon
net-wireless hostap-driver 0.4.7 Driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 based IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN products
net-wireless hostap-utils 0.4.7 Utilities for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 based IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN products
net-wireless ieee80211 1.1.9 Generic IEEE 802.11 network subsystem for Linux
net-wireless ipw2100 1.1.4 Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 3B miniPCI adapter
net-wireless ipw2100-firmware 1.3 Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 3B miniPCI adapter
net-wireless ipw2200 1.0.10 Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters
net-wireless ipw2200-firmware 2.4 Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters
net-wireless kismet 2005.08.1 IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN sniffer
net-wireless madwifi-driver 0.1_pre20050420-r1 Wireless driver for Atheros chipset a/b/g cards
net-wireless ndiswrapper 1.7 Wrapper for using Windows drivers for some wireless cards
net-wireless redfang 2.5 A very good bluetooth scanner
net-wireless rt2x00 cvs Driver for the RaLink RT2x00 wireless chipsets
net-wireless rtl8180 0.21-r1 Driver for the rtl8180 wireless chipset
net-wireless wifi-radar 1.9.4 WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.
net-wireless wireless-tools 28_pre10 A collection of tools to configure IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards
net-wireless wpa_supplicant 0.4.7 IEEE 802.1X/WPA supplicant for secure wireless transfers
www-client links 2.1_pre19 links is a fast lightweight text and graphic web-browser
www-client mozilla-firefox 1.5-r4 Firefox Web Browser
www-client mozilla-launcher 1.42 Script that launches mozilla or firefox
app-admin fam 2.7.0-r2 FAM, the File Alteration Monitor
app-admin localepurge 0.5 Script to recover diskspace wasted for unneeded locale files and localized man pages.
app-admin perl-cleaner 1.01 User land tool for cleaning up old perl installs
app-admin sudo 1.6.8_p9-r2 Allows users or groups to run commands as other users
app-admin syslog-ng 1.6.8-r1 syslog replacement with advanced filtering features
app-arch bzip2 1.0.3-r5 A high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux
app-arch cpio 2.6-r5 A file archival tool which can also read and write tar files
app-arch gzip 1.3.5-r8 Standard GNU compressor
app-arch rpm2targz 9.0-r3 Convert a .rpm file to a .tar.gz archive
app-arch sharutils 4.2.1-r11 Tools to deal with shar archives
app-arch tar 1.15.1 Use this to make tarballs :)
app-arch unzip 5.52 Unzipper for pkzip-compressed files
app-arch zip 2.3-r4 Info ZIP (encryption support)
app-crypt chntpw 0.99.3.20040818 Offline Windows NT Password & Registry Editor
app-crypt hashalot 0.3-r1 CryptoAPI utils
app-crypt johntheripper 1.6.37_p11 fast password cracker
app-editors mp 3.3.12 Minimum Profit: A text editor for programmers
app-editors nano 1.3.7 GNU GPL’d Pico clone with more functionality
app-forensics cmospwd 4.7 CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP
app-misc emelfm2 0.0.9-r1 A file manager that implements the popular two-pane design based on gtk+-2
app-misc examine cvs configuration library for applications based on the EFL
app-misc livecd-tools 1.0.25 Gentoo LiveCD tools for autoconfiguration of hardware
app-misc pax-utils 0.1.4 Various ELF related utils for ELF32, ELF64 binaries useful for displaying PaX and security info on a large groups of bins
app-mobilephone obexftp 0.10.7-r1 File transfer over OBEX for mobile phones
app-portage gentoolkit 0.2.0-r3 Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo
app-shells bash 3.0-r12 The standard GNU Bourne again shell
app-shells tcsh 6.14-r2 Enhanced version of the Berkeley C shell (csh)
dev-lang nasm 0.98.39-r1 groovy little assembler
dev-lang perl 5.8.6-r8 Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
dev-lang python 2.4.2 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-orientated programming language.
gnome-base gconf 2.10.1-r1 Gnome Configuration System and Daemon
gnome-base gnome-libs 1.4.2 GNOME Core Libraries
gnome-base gnome-mime-data 2.4.2 MIME data for Gnome
gnome-base gnome-vfs 2.10.1-r2 Gnome Virtual Filesystem
gnome-base libbonobo 2.10.1 GNOME CORBA framework
gnome-base orbit 0.5.17 A high-performance, lightweight CORBA ORB aiming for CORBA 2.2 compliance
gnome-base orbit 2.12.3 ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB
mail-mta ssmtp 2.61 Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
media-gfx entice cvs the E image browser
media-libs alsa-lib 1.0.10 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Library
media-libs audiofile 0.2.6-r1 An elegant API for accessing audio files
media-libs edje cvs graphical layout and animation library
media-libs epeg cvs wicked fast jpeg thumbnail generator
media-libs epsilon cvs nice thumbnail generator
media-libs fontconfig 2.2.3 A library for configuring and customizing font access
media-libs freetype 2.1.9-r1 A high-quality and portable font engine
media-libs gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0-r5 GNOME Image Library
media-libs giflib 4.1.4 Library to handle, display and manipulate GIF images
media-libs imlib 1.9.14-r3 Image loading and rendering library
media-libs imlib2 cvs Version 2 of an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm
media-libs jpeg 6b-r5 Library to load, handle and manipulate images in the JPEG format
media-libs lcms 1.13-r1 A lightweight, speed optimized color management engine
media-libs libao 0.8.5 the audio output library
media-libs libid3tag 0.15.1 The MAD id3tag library
media-libs libmikmod 3.1.11-r1 A library to play a wide range of module formats
media-libs libmng 1.0.8-r1 Multiple Image Networkgraphics lib (animated png’s)
media-libs libogg 1.1.2 the Ogg media file format library
media-libs libpng 1.2.8 Portable Network Graphics library
media-libs libsndfile 1.0.11 A C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound
media-libs libvorbis 1.1.0 the Ogg Vorbis sound file format library
media-libs tiff 3.7.3 Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images
media-plugins alsa-jack 1.0.10_rc1 JACK pcm plugin. Allows native ALSA applications to connect to the jackd. Works transparantly for both capture and playback.
media-plugins xmms-alsa 1.2.10-r2 Alsa output plugin for XMMS
media-plugins xmms-jack 0.10 a jack audio output plugin for XMMS
media-plugins xmms-liveice 1.0.0 Stream your XMMS playlist to Shout/Icecast server
media-plugins xmms-mikmod 1.2.10 Plugin for XMMS
media-plugins xmms-mpg123 1.2.10-r1 MP3 input plugin for XMMS
media-plugins xmms-vorbis 1.2.10-r1 Vorbis input plugin for XMMS
media-sound alsa-headers 1.0.10 Header files for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture kernel modules
media-sound alsa-utils 1.0.10 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Utils (alsactl, alsamixer, etc.)
media-sound esound 0.2.36-r1 The Enlightened Sound Daemon
media-sound jack-audio-connection-kit 0.99.0-r1 A low-latency audio server
media-sound sox 12.17.7-r1 The swiss army knife of sound processing programs
media-sound xmms 1.2.10-r15 X MultiMedia System
sys-apps attr 2.4.19-r1 Extended attributes tools
sys-apps baselayout 1.11.13-r1 Filesystem baselayout and init scripts
sys-apps coldplug 20040920 coldplug init.d program to load modules at bootime
sys-apps coreutils 5.2.1-r6 Standard GNU file utilities (chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls...), text utilities (sort, tr, head, wc..), and shell utilities (whoami, who,...)
sys-apps ddcxinfo-knoppix 0.6 Program to automatically probe a monitor for information
sys-apps debianutils 2.14.1-r1 A selection of tools from Debian
sys-apps diffutils 2.8.7-r1 Tools to make diffs and compare files
sys-apps dmapi 2.2.1 XFS data management API library
sys-apps eject 2.0.13-r2 A command to eject a disc from the CD-ROM drive
sys-apps file 4.13 Program to identify a file’s format by scanning binary data for patterns
sys-apps findutils 4.1.20-r2 GNU utilities to find files
sys-apps gawk 3.1.4-r4 GNU awk pattern-matching language
sys-apps grep 2.5.1-r8 GNU regular expression matcher
sys-apps groff 1.19.1-r2 Text formatter used for man pages
sys-apps hdparm 5.9 Utility to change hard drive performance parameters
sys-apps help2man 1.33.1 GNU utility to convert program —help output to a man page
sys-apps hotplug 20040923-r1 USB and PCI hotplug scripts
sys-apps hotplug-base 20040401 Base Hotplug framework
sys-apps hwdata-gentoo 0.2 Data for the hwsetup program
sys-apps hwsetup 1.1 Hardware setup program
sys-apps iproute2 2.6.11.20050310-r1 kernel routing and traffic control utilities
sys-apps kbd 1.12-r5 Keyboard and console utilities
sys-apps less 385_p4-r2 Excellent text file viewer
sys-apps man 1.6-r1 Standard commands to read man pages
sys-apps man-pages 2.18 A somewhat comprehensive collection of Linux man pages
sys-apps module-init-tools 3.2.1 Kernel module tools for the development kernel >=2.5.48
sys-apps net-tools 1.60-r11 Standard Linux networking tools
sys-apps parted 1.6.23 Create, destroy, resize, check, copy partitions and file systems
sys-apps pciutils 2.2.0-r1 Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus
sys-apps pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-r2 PCMCIA tools for Linux
sys-apps portage 2.0.53 The Portage Package Management System. The primary package management and distribution system for Gentoo.
sys-apps sandbox 1.2.12 sandbox’d LD_PRELOAD hack
sys-apps sed 4.1.4 Super-useful stream editor
sys-apps shadow 4.0.7-r4 Utilities to deal with user accounts
sys-apps sysvinit 2.86 /sbin/init - parent of all processes
sys-apps tcp-wrappers 7.6-r8 TCP Wrappers
sys-apps texinfo 4.8-r2 The GNU info program and utilities
sys-apps usbutils 0.11-r5 USB enumeration utilities
sys-apps utempter 0.5.5.6 App that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp (login) info
sys-apps util-linux 2.12r-r1 Various useful Linux utilities
sys-apps which 2.16 Prints out location of specified executables that are in your path
sys-block disktype 4 Detect the content format of a disk or disk image.
sys-block gparted 0.0.9-r1 Gnome Partition Editor
sys-boot syslinux 3.09 SysLinux, IsoLinux and PXELinux bootloader
sys-devel autoconf 2.13 Used to create autoconfiguration files
sys-devel autoconf 2.59-r6 Used to create autoconfiguration files
sys-devel autoconf-wrapper 3-r1 wrapper for autoconf to manage multiple autoconf versions
sys-devel automake 1.4_p6 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake 1.5 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake 1.6.3 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake 1.7.9-r1 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake 1.8.5-r3 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake 1.9.6-r1 Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
sys-devel automake-wrapper 1-r1 wrapper for automake to manage multiple automake versions
sys-devel bc 1.06-r6 Handy console-based calculator utility
sys-devel binutils 2.16.1 The Linux binary utilities
sys-devel binutils-config 1.8-r6 Utility to change the binutils version being used
sys-devel bison 1.875 A yacc-compatible parser generator
sys-devel flex 2.5.4a-r6 GNU lexical analyser generator
sys-devel gcc 3.3.6 The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++, java compilers, pie+ssp extensions, Haj Ten Brugge runtime bounds checking
sys-devel gcc-config 1.3.12-r5 Utility to change the gcc compiler being used
sys-devel gettext 0.14.4 GNU locale utilities
sys-devel gnuconfig 20051113 Updated config.sub and config.guess file from GNU
sys-devel libperl 5.8.6-r1 Larry Wall’s Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
sys-devel libtool 1.5.20 A shared library tool for developers
sys-devel m4 1.4.3 GNU macro processor
sys-devel make 3.80-r2 Standard tool to compile source trees
sys-devel patch 2.5.9 Utility to apply diffs to files
sys-fs captive 1.1.7 Captive uses binary Windows drivers for full NTFS r/w access.
sys-fs dosfstools 2.11 DOS filesystem tools - provides mkdosfs, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.vfat
sys-fs e2fsprogs 1.38 Standard EXT2 and EXT3 filesystem utilities
sys-fs fuse 2.4.1-r1 An interface for filesystems implemented in userspace.
sys-fs jfsutils 1.1.8 IBM’s Journaling Filesystem (JFS) Utilities
sys-fs mtools 3.9.10 utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them
sys-fs ntfsprogs 1.12.1 User tools for NTFS filesystems
sys-fs reiser4progs 1.0.5 reiser4progs: mkfs, fsck, etc...
sys-fs reiserfsprogs 3.6.19 Reiserfs Utilities
sys-fs squashfs-tools 2.1_p2-r1 Tool for creating compressed filesystem type squashfs
sys-fs udev 070-r1 Linux dynamic and persistent device naming support (aka userspace devfs)
sys-fs xfsdump 2.2.25 xfs dump/restore utilities
sys-fs xfsprogs 2.6.25 xfs filesystem utilities
sys-kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.14-r4 Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree
sys-kernel linux-headers 2.6.11-r2 The Linux kernel headers
sys-libs com_err 1.38 common error display library
sys-libs cracklib 2.8.3-r1 Password Checking Library
sys-libs db 1.85-r2 db 1.85 — required for RPM 4.0 to compile; that’s about it.
sys-libs db 3.2.9-r10 Berkeley DB for transaction support in MySQL
sys-libs gdbm 1.8.3-r2 Standard GNU database libraries included for compatibility with Perl
sys-libs glibc 2.3.5-r2 GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
sys-libs gpm 1.20.1-r4 Console-based mouse driver
sys-libs libaal 1.0.5 library required by reiser4progs
sys-libs libkudzu 1.1.62-r1 Red Hat Hardware detection tools
sys-libs ncurses 5.4-r6 console display library
sys-libs pwdb 0.62 Password database
sys-libs readline 5.0-r2 Another cute console display library
sys-libs ss 1.38 Subsystem command parsing library
sys-libs zlib 1.2.3 Standard (de)compression library
sys-power acpid 1.0.4-r2 Daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
sys-process cronbase 0.3.2 base for all cron ebuilds
sys-process procps 3.2.5-r1 Standard informational utilities and process-handling tools
sys-process psmisc 21.6 A set of tools that use the proc filesystem
x11-apps ttmkfdir 3.0.9-r3 A utility to create a fonts.scale file from a set of TrueType fonts
x11-base xorg-x11 6.8.2-r4 An X11 implementation maintained by the X.Org Foundation
x11-libs cairo 1.0.2 A vector graphics library with cross-device output support
x11-libs ecore cvs core event abstraction layer and X abstraction layer (nice convenience library)
x11-libs esmart cvs A collection of evas smart objects
x11-libs evas cvs hardware-accelerated canvas API
x11-libs ewl cvs simple-to-use general purpose widget library
x11-libs gtk+ 1.2.10-r11 The GIMP Toolkit
x11-libs gtk+ 2.8.8 Gimp ToolKit +
x11-libs libast 0.6.1 LIBrary of Assorted Spiffy Things
x11-libs pango 1.10.2 Text rendering and layout library
x11-libs startup-notification 0.8 Application startup notification and feedback library
x11-misc engage cvs nice bar thingy
x11-misc mkxf86config 0.9.3 xorg-x11 configuration builder for Gentoo
x11-misc shared-mime-info 0.16 The Shared MIME-info Database specification
x11-misc xdialog 2.1.1 drop-in replacement for cdialog using GTK
x11-plugins e_modules cvs add-on modules for e17 (snow/flame/notes/etc...)
x11-terms eterm cvs A vt102 terminal emulator for X
x11-terms xterm 204 Terminal Emulator for X Windows
x11-wm e cvs the e17 window manager

What's New in This Release:
Added WiFi injection support for Madwifi-ng, Hostap, wlan-ng, rtl8180, prism54/GT; integrated portagedb so no need for the module during install; created an MPlayer module; added some Firefox extensions (Live-Http-Headers, Temper-data, ShowIP, No-Referrer); updated Nessus, Yersinia, bluediving, metasploit, nmap, kernel (2.6.16); added Kismet auto-configure script based on airmon-ng, Pentoo installer, Wifitap, tcpdump, Bluetooth stack smasher....

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