Linux All Latest versions

I just searched the net for Linux versions.. and i found out that there are more than i could have imagined.......
Here is a list of the most famous of them all...

CentOS - The Community Enterprise Operating System

CentOS is a distribution based on source RPMs from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and strives to be 100% binary compatible with RHEL.

CentOS download mirrors

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux is a live CD distribution that fits on a business card CD and is light enough to run on a 486 computer with as little as 16MB of RAM.

Damn Small Linux mirrors, BitTorrent

Debian

The Debian distribution and Debian Project are governed by a social contract that requires that OSes produced by Debian will be 100% "free," as determined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).

Debian download page

Fedora

Fedora, formerly known as Fedora Core, is a Linux distribution sponsored primarily by Red Hat, with significant community participation. The Fedora Linux distro produced by the Fedora Project was based on the original Red Hat Linux distribution and is made up entirely of free and open source software.

Fedora mirrors, BitTorrent
Note that the Fedora Project produces several "spins," including live CDs, DVDs containing the full set of Fedora packages, and boot ISOs for Internet installations of Fedora. See the installation guide to figure out which version of Fedora is right for you.

Freespire

Freespire is the community-oriented version of Linspire.

Freespire download, BitTorrent

Gentoo

Gentoo is a source-based distribution, meaning all of its programs can be compiled from source code rather than installed as binary packages. That makes it highly configurable. Because the operating system and all of its applications can be compiled for the specific machine architecture it's installed on, Gentoo can perform extremely well. Gentoo is available for at least eight 32- and 64-bit hardware platforms. The distribution is more complicated to install than many others, but an active user community can help those who wish to tackle it.

Gentoo uses a package system called Portage that resembles FreeBSD's Ports. It lets you quickly install more than 10,000 pre-built applications.

Gentoo download page

Knoppix

Knoppix is one of the most popular live CD Linux distros.

Knoppix mirror network, BitTorrent, eMule

Linspire

Linspire is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose chief distiguishing feature is the ease of installing new software with its Click-N-Run (CNR) installation utility. While Linspire costs $50, its sibling Freespire is free.

Linspire purchase page

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution that comes in two main CD versions. The Light Edition avoids non-free patented software. The Full Edition includes proprietary plugins and codecs. Both use the GNOME desktop environment by default. You can also download a KDE Community Edition DVD or miniKDE Community Edition CD, or an XFCE Community Edition CD.

Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux, formerly known as MandrakeLinux, is an RPM-based distro that was originally designed to be binary compatible with Red Hat Linux. Mandriva produces versions of its Linux distribution for consumer desktops, corporate servers, and for high performance clusters. Some, but not all, versions of Mandriva are free to download.

Mandriva download page

openSUSE

The openSUSE project is sponsored by Novell to create a base for the SUSE Linux distribution it sells and supports. The openSUSE distribution is worked on by Novell employees and community members, and is suitable for desktop and server use.

You can find openSUSE downloads at download.opensuse.org, but it may be a little confusing. The project offers multiple ISOs for CD installation, DVD installation, and network installation. You can also find BitTorrents for the various downloads, and a live DVD. If you're not quite sure what you need, visit the download guide, which explains the release table, and what development versions may be available and how stable they're likely to be.

PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS is a popular Linux distribution distributed as a live CD that can be installed to your hard drive. Originally based on Mandriva, PCLinuxOS is now a solid distro in its own right that uses APT and Synaptic to manage packages, and some of the original Mandriva administration tools.

PCLinuxOS download mirrors, BitTorrent

Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux was written from scratch with two goals in mind: speed and ease of use. At boot time the entire system loads into RAM and runs from there, which significantly boosts the system's overall speed, and lets you run Puppy on a diskless workstation or thin client. It downloads in only 90MB, and can run as a live CD. It also comes with a remastering script for creating derivative distros, which other developers have used to build Puppy-based distros (called puplets), including NOP, GrafPup, and EduPup.

Puppy Linux download page

Sabayon Linux

Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo and supports both i386 and AMD64/EMT64 architectures. It comes in a 4.7GB live DVD release, a Professional version based on the stable branch of Portage, and a 700MB CD Mini version. While Sabayon contains proprietary drivers, free software fans can disable them at boot time.

Sabayon download page

Slackware

Slackware Linux is the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution.

Slackware download page, BitTorrent trackers

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a popular community-developed Linux distribution for laptops and desktop machines, and is also gaining popularity on servers. Ubuntu is based on Debian GNU/Linux, and also serves as the foundation for several other Linux distributions in its own right.

Ubuntu download form, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu.

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Linux kernel 2.6 on Iphone

The first incident for a Linux on an Iphone. The iphone-dev team has created a new bootloader called OpeniBoot. The bootloader lets you boot into a Linux console, which you can talk to over a USB serial device. They’ve got busybox working, but there is no touchscreen support yet. The instructions are not that difficult and include how to back up your settings. It works on first and second gen iPhones and first gen iPod Touch. This is a very early port, but the future is wide open… Android iPhone?
See the embedded video..


iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

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Linux Mint 6 RC1 Released

Clement Lefebvre announced a few hours ago, on the Linux Mint blog, the immediate availability of the first release candidate of Linux Mint 6 x64 Edition. This edition is based and the same is the case with the main edition of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia), only that it is addressed to 64-bit users (Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2 64 and all the x86-64 compliant processors). However, there are a couple of differences: Java is using OpenJDK instead of the Sun version, and the OpenOffice.org-base package is absent. Testing for this first release candidate will last for two weeks, and users are urged to report bugs to the Linux Mint 6 x64 bug thread


Highlights of Linux Mint 6:

· mint4win allows you to install Linux Mint from the Microsoft Windows operating system;
· mintInstall 5 with a new offline interface, software versions information and support for multiple portals;
· mintUpdate 3 with a revamped GUI, proxy support, updates history;
· mintUpload 2 with support for FTP transfers;
· mintNanny, a useful parental control tool;
· Giver, a LAN (Local Area Network) transfer tool;
· Gufw, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) frontend for the ufw firewall;
· Flegita, a utility for scanners.

What are recommended system requirements? To install Linux Mint 6, you will need minimum 512 MB of RAM (however, the system will work very well with 256 MB of RAM after installation). Be aware that the installation may hang if you have less than 512 MB of RAM. As a solution, you can try to repeat the installation process several times. Also, you must have at least 3 or 4 GB of free hard drive space.

What is Linux Mint? Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up-to-date, 100% free and comfortable Linux desktop distribution based on the very popular Ubuntu operating system. It offers paid commercial support to companies and individuals. Also, free community support is available from the forums and the IRC channel.

Download Linux Mint 6 x64 RC1 right now from Softpedia.

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Linux Shortcuts..

Here is a list of Linux Shortcuts..most of these can be easily used o WIndows machine as well

< Virtual terminals >

Ctrl + Alt + F1
Switch to the first virtual terminal. In Linux, you can have several virtual terminals at the same time. The default is 6.

Ctrl + Alt + Fn
Switch to the nth virtual terminal. Because the number of virtual terminals is 6 by default, n = 1...6.

tty
Typing the tty command tells you what virtual terminal you're currently working in.

Ctrl + Alt + F7
Switch to the GUI. If you have X Window System running, it runs in the seventh virtual terminal by default. If X isn't running, this terminal is empty.

< X Window System >

Ctrl + Alt + +
Switch to the next resolution in the X Window System. This works if you've configured more than one resolution for your X server. Note that you must use the + in your numpad.

Ctrl + Alt + -
Switch to the previous X resolution. Use the - in your numpad.

MiddleMouseButton
Paste the highlighted text. You can highlight the text with your left mouse button (or with some other highlighting method, depending on the application you're using), and then press the middle mouse button to paste. This is the traditional way of copying and pasting in the X Window System, but it may not work in some X applications.

If you have a two-button mouse, pressing both of the buttons at the same time has the same effect as pressing the middle one. If it doesn't, you must enable 3-mouse-button emulation.

This works also in text terminals if you enable the gpm service.

Ctrl + Alt + Backspace
Kill the X server. Use this if X crashes and you can't exit it normally. If you've configured your X Window System to start automatically at bootup, this restarts the server and throws you back to the graphical login screen.

< Command line - input >

Home or Ctrl + a
Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line.

End or Ctrl + e
Move the cursor to the end of the current line.

Alt + b
Move the cursor to the beginning of the current or previous word. Note that while this works in virtual terminals, it may not work in all graphical terminal emulators, because many graphical applications already use this as a menu shortcut by default.

Alt + f
Move the cursor to the end of the next word. Again, like with all shortcuts that use Alt as the modifier, this may not work in all graphical terminal emulators.

Tab
Autocomplete commands and file names. Type the first letter(s) of a command, directory or file name, press Tab and the rest is completed automatically! If there are more commands starting with the same letters, the shell completes as much as it can and beeps. If you then press Tab again, it shows you all the alternatives.

This shortcut is really helpful and saves a lot of typing! It even works at the lilo prompt and in some X applications.

Ctrl + u
Erase the current line.

Ctrl + k
Delete the line from the position of the cursor to the end of the line.

Ctrl + w
Delete the word before the cursor.

< Command line - output >

Shift + PageUp
Scroll terminal output up.

Shift + PageDown
Scroll terminal output down.

clear
The clear command clears all previously executed commands and their output from the current terminal.

Ctrl + l
Does exactly the same as typing the clear command.

reset
If you mess up your terminal, use the reset command. For example, if you try to cat a binary file, the terminal starts showing weird characters. Note that you may not be able to see the command when you're typing it.

< Command line - history >

history
When you type the history command, you'll see a list of the commands you executed previously.

ArrowUp or Ctrl + p
Scroll up in the history and edit the previously executed commands. To execute them, press Enter like you normally do.

ArrowDown or Ctrl + n
Scroll down in the history and edit the next commands.

Ctrl + r
Find the last command that contained the letters you're typing. For example, if you want to find out the last action you did to a file called "file42.txt", you'll press Ctrl + r and start typing the file name. Or, if you want to find out the last parameters you gave to the "cp" command, you'll press Ctrl + r and type in "cp".

< Command line - misc >

Ctrl + c
Kill the current process.

Ctrl + z
Send the current process to background. This is useful if you have a program running, and you need the terminal for awhile but don't want to exit the program completely. Then just send it to background with Ctrl+z, do whatever you want, and type the command fg to get the process back.

Ctrl + d
Log out from the current terminal. If you use this in a terminal emulator under X, this usually shuts down the terminal emulator after logging you out.

Ctrl + Alt + Del
Reboot the system. You can change this behavior by editing /etc/inittab if you want the system to shut down instead of rebooting.

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Linux Software.

These are linux equivalent of windows software..
These perform the same task as Window's software would perform..

Windows Software	Category	Linux Equivalent
3D Studio Max	3D Computer Graphics	Art of Illusion Blender K-3D
ACDSee	Graphics Viewer	Cornice gThumb Gwenview Imgv
Adobe Acrobat Pro	PDF editor	PDFedit
Adobe After Effects	Realtime Editing	Jahshaka
Adobe Flash Player	Multimedia	Gnash
Adobe Reader	Office Utility	Adobe Reader Evince KPDF okular
Abode InDesign	Desktop Publishing	Scribus
Adobe Illustrator	Graphics	Inkscape Skencil Xara Xtreme
Adobe PhotoAlbum	Digital Camera	digiKam
Adobe Photoshop	Graphics	CinePaint GIMP Gimpshop Krita Pixel
AOL Instant Messenger	Communication	Kopete Pidgin
ArcGIS	Geographic Information Systems	GRASS Quantum GIS uDig
AutoCAD	CAD	K-3D QCad BRL-CAD
Borland Delphi	Pascal Development	Lazarus
CDex	Multimedia	Grip K3b RipOff Sound Juicer
ChemDraw	Chemical Structures	XDrawChem
Citrix Presentation Server	Networking	NX Free Server RealVNC Vinagre
Copernic Tracker	Web site tracking	Specto
DigiGuide	TV Guide	Maxemum TV-Guide
Dreamweaver	Web Development	Bluefish Quanta Plus Nvu Screem
Eviews	Econometrics	gretl
Filezilla	FTP Client	gFTP Filezilla FireFTP KFTPgrabber
Final Cut Pro	Multimedia Editor	Avidemux Cinelerra Kino Rosegarden
FL Studio	Midi Sequencer Drum Machine	EnergyXT2 Hydrogen LMMS
Forte Agent	Usenet newsreader	KNode Pan
GetRight	Download Manager	Downloader for X GWGET KGet
Gmail Notifier	Email Tool	CheckGmail Gmail Notifier Mail Notification
Google Desktop Search	Search Tool	Beagle Google Desktop
Guitar Pro	Multitrack editor	TuxGuitar
Inspiration	Mind mapping	FreeMind Semantik View Your Mind
iTunes	Media Player	Amarok Banshee Exaile gtkpod Rhythmbox Songbird
Launchy	Application Launcher	GNOME Do Katapult
Legacy	Genealogy	GRAMPS
Logos Bible Software	Bible studies	BibleTime GnomeSword
MATLAB	Numerical computation	MATLAB Octave Scilab
Mathematica	Computer algebra	Mathematica Maxima
Meal Master	Recipe Manager	Gourmet Recipe Manager
Microsoft Access	Database	Kexi OpenOffice.org PostgreSQL
Microsoft Excel	Spreadsheet	Gnumeric OpenOffice.org
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Web Browser	Firefox Konqueror Opera
Microsoft HyperTerminal	Communications	GtkTerm minicom
Microsoft Money	Money Management	GnuCash
Microsoft NetMeeting	VoIP and videoconferencing	Ekiga
Microsoft Office	Office Suite	Google Docs & Spreadsheets KOffice OpenOffice.org
Microsoft Office OneNote	Notetaking	BasKet Note Pads Tomboy
Microsoft Outlook	Email Client	Balsa Evolution KMail Sylpheed Thunderbird
Microsoft Powerpoint	Presentation	KPresenter OpenOffice Impress
Microsoft Project	Project Management	KOffice KPlato GanttProject TaskJuggler
Microsoft Word	Wordprocessor	AbiWord Kword OpenOffice.org
Microsoft Visio	Office Drawing	ArgoUML Dia Kivio
Microsoft Visual Basic	Programming Language	Gambas
Microsoft Visual Studio	Development Environment	Anjuta Code::Blocks Eclipse Geany KDevelop NetBeans IDE
Microsoft .NET Framework	.NET Development	Mono
mIRC	IRC Client	Konversation XChat
MegaStar	Astronomy	Celestia Stellarium
Movie Collector	DVD Cataloging	GCstar Griffith Tellico vMovieDB
Nero Burning Rom	CD/DVD Burning	Brasero GnomeBaker K3b Nero Linux
Nero Recode	MPEG-4 encoder	HandBrake
Nero Vision Express	DVD Authoring	KMediaFactory Q DVD-Author
NewsBin Pro	Usenet Binary Downloader	KLibido Pan
NewzCrawler	News Aggregator	Akregator BlogBridge Liferea RSSOwl Thunderbird
Notepad	Simple Text Editor	Cream gedit Kate SciTE Scribes
OmniPage	Text Recognition (OCR)	Kooka
Palm Desktop	Personal Information Manager	Chandler Evolution J-Pilot Kontact KPilot qOrganizer Spicebird
Parasoft Insure++	Debugging	Valgrind
Partition Magic	System Utility	GParted
Picasa	Photo Management	blueMarine F-Spot Picasa
PowerDVD	DVD Player	MPlayer VLC
Quicken	Personal Finance	GnuCash Grisbi kMyMoney Moneydance
Quick Books	Financial / Taxation	MyBooks Professional
Scientific Word	Typesetting	Kile LyX TeXmacs
Skype	Internet Telephony	Skype WengoPhone
Soundrec	Audio Recorder	Audacity Jokosher Traverso DAW
SPSS	Statistical Analysis	PSPP R SPSS
Symantec Ghost	Backup	Clonezilla Partition Image PING
Symantec Veritas NetBackup	Backup	Amanda Bacula Keep
Traktor DJ	Disc Jockey Tool	Mixxx
µTorrent	BitTorrent client	Azureus Deluge KTorrent Transmission
Videora	iPod Video Conversion	thin liquid film
VideoReDo	Video Editing	Avidemux Kdenlive Lives
VMware Workstation	Virtualization	VirtualBox VMware Workstation
Winamp	Multimedia Player	Audacious Amarok Banshee Helix Player
Windows Calculator	Calculator	SpeedCrunch
Windows File Explorer	File Management	Endeavour Mark II Konqueror Krusader Nautilus PCMan File Manager Thunar Xfe
Windows Live Messenger	Communication	aMSN emesene Kopete Mercury Messenger Pidgin
Windows Media Center	Home Media Box	Elisa Media Center Freevo LinuxMCE MythTV
Windows Media Player	Multimedia Player	Kaffeine KPlayer MPlayer Totem xine
WinIso	CD Image File Utility	KIso
WinZip	Compression Utility	File Roller
ZoneAlarm	Firewall	Guarddog Firestarter

The list above is not exhaustive. We welcome suggestions for titles to be added to the existing Linux equivalents, other software you would like us to list, or sites that have relevant information about the already listed software. Send your emails to our resident webmaster.

The table below will provide alternatives to more specialised Windows software, typically software that a systems administrator needs to perform his or her job.

Windows Software	Category	Linux Equivalent
Check Point VPN-1	Virtual Private Networking	OpenVPN
CommView	Protocol Analyzer	Wireshark
HP OpenView Network Node Manager	Network Management	Nagios NeDi OpenNMS Pandora FMS
Microsoft Exchange Server	Groupware	Zimbra
Microsoft Internet Information Services	Web Server	Apache HTTP Server
Plesk	Web Server Administration	Webmin

Source - http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20070701111340544/Equivalents.html

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Installing John The ripper on Linux machine

John the ripper is undoubtedly one of the best password cracking tool. People have been experiencing some problems with installing it. So here we bring out a tutorial on how to install the famous password cracker on a Linux machine.


This is the method to install and use john the ripper in fedora/ubuntu (and many other linux as well)..

1) Download john the ripper software

http://www.ziddu.com/download/6365223/jo...ar.gz.html

2) Extract it and then copy the text from

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2009/09/02/3

3) Save the copy text in john folder with john.patch.

4) Open terminal and go to john folder

cd Desktop/john-1.7.3.1

5) Now we have to patch our john software with following command

patch -Np1 -i john.patch

6) go to src folder

cd src

7) run this command

make linux-x86-sse2

8) cd .. and goto run folder cd run.

9) Run this commmand

./unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > filename

10) Finally run this command to crack password

./john filename

and here you have the ripper running. 
by hackiteasy

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Get free Linux cds

Like Ubuntu, Oracle has also started shipping Linux DVDs for free anywhere in the world.
Head over to this page, type in your snail mail address and Oracle will ship your their DVD set of their own Linux distribution called the Unbreakable Linux.

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free linux cds

this one is really great...
if u want free cds of ubuntu- a really awesome linux version just go to this site and ask request for free cds...
and you get them mailed to you at ur home by post...........
thats it....
i love Ubuntu and have so far got all i ever needed from them... these people are great..
this is the site..
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
ShipIt




Also i found out the way to get more of Ubuntu Distributions...

Edubuntu..
Scholars and Education oriented Ubuntu....
The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
get it's cd's from here...........
Shipit


Kubuntu..

Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

Get its free cds here...

Shipit-kubuntu

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Free Linux Download:- An overview of all popular versions..

Download Linux

While there are too many Linux distributions for us to include them all, here are some of the most popular Linux distros, along with their download pages.

CentOS - The Community Enterprise Operating System

CentOS is a distribution based on source RPMs from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and strives to be 100% binary compatible with RHEL.

CentOS download mirrors

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux is a live CD distribution that fits on a business card CD and is light enough to run on a 486 computer with as little as 16MB of RAM.

Damn Small Linux mirrors, BitTorrent

Debian

The Debian distribution and Debian Project are governed by a social contract that requires that OSes produced by Debian will be 100% "free," as determined by the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).

Debian download page

Fedora

Fedora, formerly known as Fedora Core, is a Linux distribution sponsored primarily by Red Hat, with significant community participation. The Fedora Linux distro produced by the Fedora Project was based on the original Red Hat Linux distribution and is made up entirely of free and open source software.

Fedora mirrors, BitTorrent
Note that the Fedora Project produces several "spins," including live CDs, DVDs containing the full set of Fedora packages, and boot ISOs for Internet installations of Fedora. See the installation guide to figure out which version of Fedora is right for you.

Freespire

Freespire is the community-oriented version of Linspire.

Freespire download, BitTorrent

Gentoo

Gentoo is a source-based distribution, meaning all of its programs can be compiled from source code rather than installed as binary packages. That makes it highly configurable. Because the operating system and all of its applications can be compiled for the specific machine architecture it's installed on, Gentoo can perform extremely well. Gentoo is available for at least eight 32- and 64-bit hardware platforms. The distribution is more complicated to install than many others, but an active user community can help those who wish to tackle it.

Gentoo uses a package system called Portage that resembles FreeBSD's Ports. It lets you quickly install more than 10,000 pre-built applications.

Gentoo download page

Knoppix

Knoppix is one of the most popular live CD Linux distros.

Our writeup

Knoppix mirror network, BitTorrent, eMule

Linspire

Linspire is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose chief distiguishing feature is the ease of installing new software with its Click-N-Run (CNR) installation utility. While Linspire costs $50, its sibling Freespire is free.

Linspire purchase page

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution that comes in two main CD versions. The Light Edition avoids non-free patented software. The Full Edition includes proprietary plugins and codecs. Both use the GNOME desktop environment by default. You can also download a KDE Community Edition DVD or miniKDE Community Edition CD, or an XFCE Community Edition CD.

Download page

Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux, formerly known as MandrakeLinux, is an RPM-based distro that was originally designed to be binary compatible with Red Hat Linux. Mandriva produces versions of its Linux distribution for consumer desktops, corporate servers, and for high performance clusters. Some, but not all, versions of Mandriva are free to download.

Mandriva download page

openSUSE

The openSUSE project is sponsored by Novell to create a base for the SUSE Linux distribution it sells and supports. The openSUSE distribution is worked on by Novell employees and community members, and is suitable for desktop and server use.

You can find openSUSE downloads at download.opensuse.org, but it may be a little confusing. The project offers multiple ISOs for CD installation, DVD installation, and network installation. You can also find BitTorrents for the various downloads, and a live DVD. If you're not quite sure what you need, visit the download guide, which explains the release table, and what development versions may be available and how stable they're likely to be.

PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS is a popular Linux distribution distributed as a live CD that can be installed to your hard drive. Originally based on Mandriva, PCLinuxOS is now a solid distro in its own right that uses APT and Synaptic to manage packages, and some of the original Mandriva administration tools.

PCLinuxOS download mirrors, BitTorrent

Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux was written from scratch with two goals in mind: speed and ease of use. At boot time the entire system loads into RAM and runs from there, which significantly boosts the system's overall speed, and lets you run Puppy on a diskless workstation or thin client. It downloads in only 90MB, and can run as a live CD. It also comes with a remastering script for creating derivative distros, which other developers have used to build Puppy-based distros (called puplets), including NOP, GrafPup, and EduPup.

Puppy Linux download page

Sabayon Linux

Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo and supports both i386 and AMD64/EMT64 architectures. It comes in a 4.7GB live DVD release, a Professional version based on the stable branch of Portage, and a 700MB CD Mini version. While Sabayon contains proprietary drivers, free software fans can disable them at boot time.

Sabayon download page

Slackware

Slackware Linux is the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution.

Slackware download page, BitTorrent trackers

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a popular community-developed Linux distribution for laptops and desktop machines, and is also gaining popularity on servers. Ubuntu is based on Debian GNU/Linux, and also serves as the foundation for several other Linux distributions in its own right.

Ubuntu download form, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu.

Source - http://www.linux.com/download_linux/

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Fasttrack - an automated penetration tool for linux

Fast-Track is a python based open-source project aimed at helping Penetration Testers in an effort to identify, exploit, and further penetrate a network. Fast-Track was originally conceived when a h4cker was on a penetration test and found that there was generally a lack of tools or automation in certain attacks that were normally extremely advanced and time consuming.


In an effort to reproduce some advanced attacks and propagate it down , he ended up writing Fast-Track for the public. Many of the issues Fast-Track exploits are due to improper sanitizing of client-side data within web applications, patch management, or lack of hardening techniques. All of these are relatively simple to fix if you know what to look for, but as penetration testers are extremely common findings for us. Fast-Track arms the penetration tester with advanced attacks that in most cases have never been performed before. Sit back relax, crank open a can of jolt cola and enjoy the ride.


Installing Fast-Track:
make sure you have the latest version of Subversion

Open a terminal and type the following command (In Linux offcourse) :

svn co http://svn.thepentest.com/fasttrack /path-to-install/

The svn co simply means "check out" the latest version of Fast-Track, the /path-to-install/ is the directory you want to install Fast-Track.

If you want to update Fast-Track after you check out the files, simply type svn update, or use the Fast-Track menu to update.

When you first check out Fast-Track, there are a few modules that need to be installed, fortunately, Fast-Track comes with a setup file that helps you install the files needed. From the command line and in the Fast-Track menu, simply type:

python setup.py install

Follow the guide for installing Fast-Track, note that the setup does NOT install Metasploit for you. If you don't have Metasploit installed, some applications will not work properly. Ensure that you enter the right path to Metasploit.

Once installation has finished, run Fast-Track, if it errors out saying you do not have the proper requirements, type yes to try a different type of install. If this still doesn't work you will need to manually install the requirements.

now to run Fast-Track type:

./fast-track.py

 
to run the web GUI mod:

./ftgui

Open a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:44444

Fast-Track HomePage: http://www.thepentest.com

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Backtrack : The linux distro made for and by hackers

Linux is obviously te best tool to try your hacking skills, as it is robust, made by hackers, gives you all tools for free and let you do what you want to do with it.To start your hacking stuff you need to get a lot of tools and you might be stuck when some tool starts creating error and you wish that your system had all these prehandedly. Here Backtrack comes in the scenario.

Backtrack linux is just what every hacker dreams of, a full system preloaded with every tool you would have ever wished for. It haws almost every tool ever invented for hackers to lay there hands on.

BackTrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information security field. BackTrack promotes a quick and easy way to find and update the largest database of security tools collection to-date. Our community of users range from skilled penetration testers in the information security field, government entities, information technology, security enthusiasts, and individuals new to the security community.

Backtrack was made for everyone including tools for the amateur hackers to deep balck hats.

Download Backtrack here:
Normal download     Torrent

A few Tools

BackTrack provides users with easy access to a comprehensive and large collection of security-related tools ranging from port scanners to password crackers. Support for Live CD and Live USB functionality allows users to boot BackTrack directly from portable media without requiring installation, though permanent installation to hard disk is also an option.

BackTrack includes many well known security tools including:

* Metasploit integration
* RFMON Injection capable wireless drivers
* Kismet
* Nmap
* Ettercap
* Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal)
* BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework)
* Hydra

A large collection of exploits as well as more commonplace software such as browsers. BackTrack arranges tools into 11 categories:

* Information Gathering
* Network Mapping
* Vulnerability Identification
* Web Application Analysis
* Radio Network Analysis (802.11, Bluetooth, RFID)
* Penetration (Exploit & Social Engineering Toolkit)
* Privilege Escalation
* Maintaining Access
* Digital Forensics
* Reverse Engineering
* Voice Over IP


Source- http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

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10 best hacking tools for Linux

Linux is a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabilities, and detecting possible intrusions. I have here a collection of 10 of the besthacking and security software tools for Linux. Please always keep in mind that these tools are not meant to harm, but to protect.

1. John the Ripper

John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool initially developed for the UNIX operating system. It is one of the most popular password testing/breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. It can be run against various encrypted password formats including several crypt password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors (based on DES, MD5, or Blowfish), Kerberos AFS, and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hash. Additional modules have extended its ability to include MD4-based password hashes and passwords stored in LDAP, MySQL and others.

2. Nmap 

Nmap is my favorite network security scanner. It is used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network. Just like many simple port scanners, Nmap is capable of discovering passive services on a network despite the fact that such services aren't advertising themselves with a service discovery protocol. In addition Nmap may be able to determine various details about the remote computers. These include operating system, device type, uptime, software product used to run a service, exact version number of that product, presence of some firewall techniques and, on a local area network, even vendor of the remote network card.

Nmap runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, and BSD (including Mac OS X), and also on AmigaOS. Linux is the most popular nmap platform and Windows the second most popular.


3. Nessus

Nessus is a comprehensive vulnerability scanning software. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems such as:

-Vulnerabilities that allow a remote cracker to control or access sensitive data on a system.
-Misconfiguration (e.g. open mail relay, missing patches, etc).
-Default passwords, a few common passwords, and blank/absent passwords on some system accounts. Nessus can also call Hydra (an external tool) to launch a dictionary attack.
-Denials of service against the TCP/IP stack by using mangled packets

Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner, estimated to be used by over 75,000 organizations worldwide. It took first place in the 2000, 2003, and 2006 security tools survey from SecTools.Org.


4. chkrootkit

chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a common Unix-based program intended to help system administrators check their system for known rootkits. It is a shell script using common UNIX/Linux tools like the strings and grep commands to search core system programs for signatures and for comparing a traversal of the /proc filesystem with the output of the ps (process status) command to look for discrepancies.

It can be used from a "rescue disc" (typically a Live CD) or it can optionally use an alternative directory from which to run all of its own commands. These techniques allow chkrootkit to trust the commands upon which it depend a bit more.

There are inherent limitations to the reliability of any program that attempts to detect compromises (such as rootkits and computer viruses). Newer rootkits may specifically attempt to detect and compromise copies of the chkrootkit programs or take other measures to evade detection by them.


5. Wireshark

Wireshark is a free packet sniffer computer application used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. In June 2006, the project was renamed from Ethereal due to trademark issues.

The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has a GUI front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network (usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by putting the network interface into promiscuous mode.

Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit, and is cross-platform, running on various computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Wireshark is free software.


6. netcat

netcat is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections on either TCP or UDP.

Netcat was voted the second most useful network security tool in a 2000 poll conducted by insecure.org on the nmap users mailing list. In 2003, it gained fourth place, a position it also held in the 2006 poll.

The original version of netcat is a UNIX program. Its author is known as *Hobbit*. He released version 1.1 in March of 1996.

Netcat is fully POSIX compatible and there exist several implementations, including a rewrite from scratch known as GNU netcat.


7. Kismet

Kismet is a network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.

Kismet is unlike most other wireless network detectors in that it works passively. This means that without sending any loggable packets, it is able to detect the presence of both wireless access points and wireless clients, and associate them with each other.

Kismet also includes basic wireless IDS features such as detecting active wireless sniffing programs including NetStumbler, as well as a number of wireless network attacks.


8. hping

hping is a free packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol. Hping is one of the de facto tools for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the Nmap Security Scanner. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human readable description of TCP/IP packets, so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/IP packet manipulation and analysis in very short time.

Like most tools used in computer security, hping is useful to both system administrators and crackers (or script kiddies).


9. Snort

Snort is a free and open source Network Intrusion prevention system (NIPS) and network intrusion detection (NIDS) capable of performing packet logging and real-time traffic analysis on IP networks.

Snort performs protocol analysis, content searching/matching, and is commonly used to actively block or passively detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, web application attacks, SMB probes, and OS fingerprinting attempts, amongst other features. The software is mostly used for intrusion prevention purposes, by dropping attacks as they are taking place. Snort can be combined with other software such as SnortSnarf, sguil, OSSIM, and the Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) to provide a visual representation of intrusion data. With patches for the Snort source from Bleeding Edge Threats, support for packet stream antivirus scanning with ClamAV and network abnormality with SPADE in network layers 3 and 4 is possible with historical observation.


10. tcpdump

tcpdump is a common computer network debugging tool that runs under the command line. It allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached.

In some Unix-like operating systems, a user must have superuser privileges to use tcpdump because the packet capturing mechanisms on those systems require elevated privileges. However, the -Z option may be used to drop privileges to a specific unprivileged user after capturing has been set up. In other Unix-like operating systems, the packet capturing mechanism can be configured to allow non-privileged users to use it; if that is done, superuser privileges are not required.

The user may optionally apply a BPF-based filter to limit the number of packets seen by tcpdump; this renders the output more usable on networks with a high volume of traffic.

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