The overlap was done based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS starting from BackTrack 5. The overlap with Auditor and WHAX in purpose and in collection of tools partly led to the merger. On January 9, 2010, BackTrack 4 improved hardware support, and added official FluxBox support. Auditor Security Collection: a Live CD based on Knoppix developed by Max Moser which included over 300 tools organized in a user-friendly hierarchy.Earlier versions of WHAX were called Whoppix and were based on Knoppix. WHAX: a Slax-based Linux distribution developed by Mati Aharoni, a security consultant.

The BackTrack distribution originated from the merger of two formerly competing distributions which focused on penetration testing: In March 2013, the Offensive Security team rebuilt BackTrack around the Debian distribution and released it under the name Kali Linux. Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, Offensive Security ĥ R3 / August 13, 2012 10 years ago ( )īash, KDE Plasma Desktop, Fluxbox, GNOMEīackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.

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