Creating a Distro?
The idea of creating a distro such like backtrack but with a slight twist has been put forward by Nemolog. The twist is that included in the distro will be tutorials to lean you how to utilise the many tools that backtrack has to offer.
finalechelon also had a very good point to put forward
“Also, I agree with Nemolog regarding the BT'esque distro with an in-depth tutorial. I think such a distro would perfectly support a hacking information track. Besides, while the BT concept makes for an exceptional distro, I view it as being comparable to the Batmobile: sure anyone can jump behind the wheel and take off, but if you don't know what feature does what or how to use it, then you miss out on the full experience and usefulness.”
So we need to know what the people of HoH think. Is there people out there sat shouting at there pc/laptop/internet tablet YES!!! or sat there in silence thinking “this is what I have been looking for all over”? Then let us know show your interest or lack of.
finalechelon also had a very good point to put forward
“Also, I agree with Nemolog regarding the BT'esque distro with an in-depth tutorial. I think such a distro would perfectly support a hacking information track. Besides, while the BT concept makes for an exceptional distro, I view it as being comparable to the Batmobile: sure anyone can jump behind the wheel and take off, but if you don't know what feature does what or how to use it, then you miss out on the full experience and usefulness.”
So we need to know what the people of HoH think. Is there people out there sat shouting at there pc/laptop/internet tablet YES!!! or sat there in silence thinking “this is what I have been looking for all over”? Then let us know show your interest or lack of.
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Permalink Reply by mindcorrosive on -
At this point, something inside utters "Yet another Linux distro". Consider the number of distributions these days, and their state. To start a distribution simply for claiming it your own is somewhat useless. Moreover, the work required until a distribution is feature-complete, stable and usable is significant, and many people would lose momentum at some point if the progress is not evident. I'm not sure that HoH would benefit from such idea at this moment.
The tutorial idea, though, is very good - I'd be glad to provide some help with my (limited) skills in the security area, if need be. Preparing good teaching materials would be easy and people involved would see results much faster, thus boosting their morale for continuing support of the idea.
Why not building those tutorials on top of Backtrack? I think BT devs won't object to a group building on top of their platform, providing much needed documentation and help to its users, and (hopefully) increase their user base.
Going further, why not building those tutorials independently of the underlying OS? Simply include OS-specific details for each tool and you are good to go.
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Permalink Reply by 47_MasoN_47 on -
YES!!!
Even if it isn't it's own distro, it would be great to create something that would work seemlessly with BT. I know there are a lot of aspects of BT that I'm not using, it would be amazing to have either a distro or an add-in containing some tutorials on how to use the tools.
BT is my main penetration testing OS at my place of employment. It would be really helpful to know how to use every aspect of it.
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Permalink Reply by Ricky on -
To keep you upto date on this, before we go about sorting out what to place on the distro I have emailed a team member at remote-exploit.org to find out if it will be possible to creat a distro from theres with such lessons as we are talking about. Once I hear anything back I will let you people know.
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Permalink Reply by FinalEchelon on -
domo arigato, Mr. Roboto :)
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Permalink Reply by Happy-Dude on -
Sure, if we can manage to do something like it. I know in the book "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (2nd Edition)" includes a LiveCD of many hacking tools (compiler, debugger, port scanner, and more). The book itself is the "tutorial," if you will, and the LiveCD is your weapon.
Maybe we can start looking there (the book costs quite a lot, but its really well written, so its a good start)?
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Permalink Reply by Nemolog on -
I think that there are too many similar tutorial in the web, but a disto is a simple way to share knowledge. I can ask to other people to collaborate in this project...
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Permalink Reply by $ummer on -
Allright, so do we start this up or what? What are we waiting for? My computer claim a new OS!
What do we start up from? And more important WHEN do we start this up?
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Permalink Reply by Ricky on
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Good questions, the answer is we start when ever you feel ready, we can start to collect the lessons of tool usage from the moment some one submits one
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