Re: Creating my own personal Linux distribution for Penetration Testing and White-Hat Hacking

[Sven Aluoor <aluoor () gmail com>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:42:45 +1100
"Chip Panarchy" <forumanarchy () gmail com> wrote:

> Greetings,

Hi Chip Panarchy

> Recently I have been working on a distribution of Linux built on
> Debian... to get more specific, built on Linux -> Debian -> Ubuntu
> 8.10 -> Super Ubuntu. Though I will probably build it directly from
> Ubuntu (or Debian) sometime in the future.
>
> My distribution has been specialised to suite the requirements of your
> everyday (and not so everyday!) pen-tester and white/grey hat hackers.

Try to be a Debian or Ubuntu Developer. It means you build
dpkg-packages (not just an installation from source). There is good
documentation at Debian.org[0]

Debian and Ubuntu lacks many security tools (pre-packaged). So it would
be great if you can upload it to the archive (and integrate it
with the system, the Debian-way).

After this development work you can generate a Debian live cd.

> My sobriquet for this distribution is: HackBuntu.

IMHO its better to work close with Debian Team than to make yet another
live cd distribution. There are so many out in the wild. If nobody
uses your HackBuntu your effort is mostly useless.  

[...]

> Please recommend me some more tools to 'put into' this distribution.
>
> Thanks in advance,

See sectools.org[0] or better the Debian to-do list[2]. There are many
security related requested packages[3]

> Chip D. Panarchy

kind regards
Sven

[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/
[1] http://sectools.org/
[2] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
[3] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested