Conscious Manifestations

"BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes. [...]

Currently BackTrack consists of more than 300 different up-to-date tools which are logically structured according to the work flow of security professionals. This structure allows even newcomers to find the related tools to a certain task to be accomplished. New technologies and testing techniques are merged into BackTrack as soon as possible to keep it up-to-date.

No other commercial or freely available analysis platform offers an equivalent level of usability with automatic configuration and focus on penetration testing."

http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html

http://wiki.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Tools

http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_screenshots.html

Description: CD Image
Name:: bt3-final.iso
Size: 695 MB
MD5: f79cbfbcd25147df32f5f6dfa287c2d9
SHA1: 471f0e41931366517ea8bffe910fb09a815e42c7

http://www.remote-exploit.org/cgi-bin/fileget?version=bt3-cd

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=5c6a24a69488184248598a5e626ba86a71714634&f=BackTrack%203%20Final%20LiveCD.torrent

Description: USB Version (Extended)
Name:: bt3final_usb.iso
Size: 784 MB
MD5: 5d27c768e9c2fef61bbc208c78dadf22
SHA1: 3aceedea0e8e70fff2e7f7a7f3039704014e980f

http://www.remote-exploit.org/cgi-bin/fileget?version=bt3-usb

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=b213dffcf886bb348689747eddd92a4d5c3a8fff&f=BackTrack%203%20Final%20%28Extended%20usb%20version%29.torrent

"Tiny Linux is a small Linux distribution designed especially for old recycled computers. [...]

On the cd we have:

- a bootable tiny linux based on Slackware's initrd.img - not compressed so you need: 6mb for just putting the image into memory, 1 mb for the kernel, 1 mb for basic modules and 1 mb for system to work: 6+1+1+1 = 9mb of RAM -> that's what you need to use the CD.

TINY Linux distribution comes under "GNU GPL."

http://community.ofset.org/wiki/TINY

http://tiny.seul.org/distrib/pre1-2.0_cd.zip

Size: 56956202 bytes ~ 57 MB
MD5: d7be63b179174c8dd92f56ef0994ef48 *pre1-2.0_cd.zip

For version 1.0 look at: http://tiny.seul.org

"'Design, Simulate and Program electronics. [...]

Fedora Electronic Lab' is a Feature for Fedora 8. It was approved on FESCo Meeting (2007-08-16).

For Fedora 8's release, "Fedora Electronic Lab" targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field.

It introduces

* tools for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design Flow process to the Fedora Collection for ASIC Design Flow.
* extra open source standard cell libraries supporting a feature size of 0.13µm
* extracted spice decks which are simulated with gnucap/ngspice

It is intended for electronic, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) students and hobbyists for educational purposes."

http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab8

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-8-Live-FEL-i686.torrent

"One day, I needed a Debian Sarge root filesystem to be used with User Mode Linux, because the official website of UML only provided Debian Woody images. This short document explains how you can create your own root filesystem and run it through UML.

In the document, host is the computer on which you're working, and the target is the system we're trying to build."

http://thomas.enix.org/HowtoRootStrap

"The Crocodile project aims to cross-compile Debian from scratch by using Scratchbox. Currently the essential packages of the Sarge distribution can be built for the ARM (little-endian) architecture. Support for the MIPS (big-endian) and CRIS architectures is under development."

http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/Crocodile

"A tool for building complete Linux filesystem images

Rootstrap was originally written to provide a facility for building filesystems for use with User-mode Linux, but can be useful in other applications as well.

It uses a modular set of shell scripts to create the filesystem image, install a base system, and customize it for a particular application. Currently, it only builds Debian systems, but the architecture is such that other base systems could be used instead.

Use of rootstrap does not require root access, or special privileges of any kind. This is because it builds the filesystem inside a User-mode Linux system running under an unprivileged uid.

Filesystem creation with rootstrap is quick and painless. With a local mirror and a single command, a fresh Debian filesystem can be created in about 3 minutes on relatively modest hardware."

http://packages.debian.org/source/rootstrap

"a little python script, live-xmaker.

Live-xmaker is a command line front-end to live-helper, inspired by morphix-mmaker[4][5] (written by Alex de Landgraaf). This allows all the configurations for a liveCD build to be specified in one XML file. [...]

I plan to update live-xmaker with all the possible options available via live-helper [...]

This script is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later."

Feedback is very welcome. I have also cc'ed the morphix-developers mailing list as it may pique the interest of follow morphers."

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2008-August/004185.html

http://autotesting.livecd.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=live-xmaker.git;a=blob_plain;f=live-xmaker.py

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive

"Relax and Recover (abbreviated ReaR) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems, but can be easily extended to other UNIX alike systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored on the network, USB devices and DVD/CD-R. The result is bootable rescue system that can be booted via PXE, DVD/CD and USB media.

The rear project is a spin-off of two existing projects:

* OpenVPN Gateway Builder (OGB) of Schlomo Schapiro, and
* Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec) of Gratien D'haese

We had the idea to take the best of both worlds. The modular concept of OGB and the disaster recovery part of mkCDrec. We are proud that we were able to release rear v1.0 with a few weeks of coding. That was only possible due to strict modular design and seperating duties within the design and coding.

We can only hope that we can/may inspire other developers to jump on our disaster recovery project and help us to improve and deliver new plug-ins.

Now, one and a half years later, we are proud to release rear 1.6 amongst the knowledge that Relax & Recover is used by a growing community of end-users and contributors.

Purpose and Key Features

* Focus on Disaster Recovery, not backup
* Modular concept easy to extend with new features
* For Linux and other Unix-like operations systems
* No external dependancies - use only standard software supplied with the distribution
* Linux: kernel > 2.6 supported (no kernel 2.2/2.4 support !)
* User friendly - minimal output, use log file for error messages and details
* Designed with enterprise environments and security issues in mind

The aim is to make rear as least demanding as possible, it will require only the applications neccessary to fulfill the job rear is configured for. All other applications will be copied to the rescue system if they are present.

License

rear is licensed under the GNU General Public License"

http://rear.sourceforge.net/

Free mini-operating system

https://gna.org/projects/logram/

"How to make a USB flash drive function as a Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) Live CD. The base file system is ext3, it boots using extlinux and supports the same hardware as the Live CD. Instructions on how to update the Live CD and modify it's contents are also given. For the entire document /dev/sda is the USB device.

Booting from a USB device is ofter faster than from CD and USB drives are easier to carry. You should know why you want and or need this. We used Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn as our image for booting and a Gentoo system for building on."

http://edoceo.com/liber/ubuntu-live-usb

"Our message is simple

Light - Fast - Now

Use your computers in a lightweight but fully featured way using less energy. The operating will run on low power computers and recycled systems keeping you working and playing with all the features you expect..

It will be fast and easy, and now is the right time to rethink our energy use and computers in our daily lives.

There will be three desktop versions

wattOS - The core desktop system using a fully featured Gnome desktop

mWattOS - Milliwatt a smaller desktop system using XFCE as the core interface. (known as mWOS)

µWattOS - Microwatt an even smaller desktop utilizing a minimal desktop GUI or command line. Ideal for appliances, small systems, kiosks, or old computers.

There will initially be one server version that will be modular and specialized.

Substation - The wattOS server"

http://www.planetwatt.com/

WattOS Alpha 2 Torrent Download 457.40 MB

"Toorox is a Linux Live-DVD based on Gentoo booting up with KNOPPIX technology. Designed for easy using, multi-lingual(de,en), simple control center, hard disk installer."

Content:

-Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8
-KDE 4.1.0
-OpenOffice 2.4.1
-Firefox 3.0
-Wine 1.0
-K3b 1.0.5
...

From the Changelog:

-KDE 4.1.0
-Fixed boot time (language - english)

MD5 Toorox 08.2008-KDE4 38503717050fcc53838f247f6c98842f

http://toorox.de/index.php?lang=en

http://toorox.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=14&Itemid=14

"Moblin Image Creator is a tool aimed at making life easier for the mobile and embedded developer. The tool is designed to be extremely flexible with platform-specific knowledge isolated to a platform definition. Initial focus is on a new class of devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), but the design of Moblin Image Creator is not MID-specific and talk is already underway to add new platform definitions to build consumer electronics stacks, such as TV set-top boxes.

Note: Previously, "Moblin Image Creator" was called "Project Builder", so you may see references to the old name in the documentation and source code.

There are three fundamental features that Moblin Image Creator provides:

* creating a platform-specific build-environment, or "project"
* creating a platform-specific target file-system
* providing user selectable "feature sets" (or fsets) to install bundles of packages that provide some high-level functionality

For more details on projects, targets, fsets, and images, click here."

http://moblin.org/projects/projects_image-creator.php

http://www.moblin.org/repos/tools/moblin-image-creator.git

"This question or a question related to part of this gets asked so many times, but people seem unable to find it where I originally posted it.

THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR BT2 BUT CAN EASILY BE ADAPTED FOR BT3

Most of this is aimed at a USB HDD but it should be obvious from this how to adapt it for a USB pendrive, stick, flash drive or whatever else you like to call them.

Ok so this is how I do a live install with changes, swap and data partitions."

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=7844

"This is another method to create a live install of BackTrack 3 on your HD. The need for this was that an install of BT was required for a machine with only 4gb of disk space and that it also needed to be dual booted with another linux distro from grub. This is a very simple live install with no persistancy. it has been done on an eeepc."

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto (scroll down)

"NOTE: This procedure works on the IRC Addict Pre-Release BT2 and the final release, but it does not work on sidc and earlier versions

1. Open the backtrack.iso file:

Option 1. In Windows, use a program such as isobuster
Option 2. In Backtrack, mount the iso
(mount -o loop -t iso9660 yourcd.iso /mnt/iso)
Option 3. In OSX, mount the iso

2. Extract and copy the /boot and /BT folders from the iso to the USB flash stick

3. Make the USB Stick bootable: "

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php/Howto:USB_Stick

"Newbee USB INSTALLER UNDER WINDOWS

I have coded this over the past few days. A GUI for downloading and installing BT2 to a usb stick, flash card or usb hd in a way that the king of newbeez can do it so if your interested in this freeware, here is the link, feel free to ask questions, feedback welcome.....:

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar.html Welcome to BackTrack 2 USB 4 WIN

1)What the hell is it ?"

http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Howto:_BackTrack_2.0_final_%2C_automated_download_and_installation_on_USB_Stick_from_windows

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt2usb4win/

http://rapidshare.com/files/29047490/BT2USB4WINBETARELIZ2.rar.html

Inquisitor is a mature hardware diagnostics, stress testing, certification and monitoring platform, running on GNU/Linux. It's suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and available in standalone version, server-controlled network boot production system and serverless Live CD format.

Inquisitor team is pleased to announce Inquisitor v3.0 — a first major open-source version of the platform. After initial announcement of Inquisitor branch 3.x in August 2007, it's a fruit of almost a year of labor.

Inquisitor version 3 is a major redesign of older 1.x and 2.x systems.

New features:

• Modularity: it consists of dozens of interconnected and interchangeable modules with well-defined API; one can easily add new modules to add new tests, detections, production steps, etc.
• Three varieties: standalone (runs on top of already installed OS), live CD (can be used to analyse/test just one home computer), enterprise (server-controller network boot).
• Flexibility: every test parameter can be adjusted, all system can be customized.
• Server-controlled testing: server-based version includes a database that stores all the data on all computers that were tested by Inquisitor. If only some parts of hardware will change, clever scheduler won't redo all the long testing, but only tests relevant to hardware changes.

For those who would like to try Inquisitor, the easiest way is to download a 130MB ISO, available for both x86 and x86_64 from http://www.inquisitor.ru/.

Comments and especially bug reports are welcome.

http://www.inquisitor.ru/

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4306449/Inquisitor_3.0_LiveCD_(i586).4306449.TPB.torrent

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4306453/Inquisitor_3.0_LiveCD_(x86_64).4306453.TPB.torrent

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inq/inq-3.0.tar.bz2

"xPUD is a small Linux distribution which contains only web browser and media player. It's been optimized for USB pendrive with "Boot-Gear" fast booting method, easy-to-use "Plate" user interface and "Opt-Get" software module mechanism.

xPUD is relatively small and fast, and has been fully integrated with browser, so it can be a great platform to deliver Web apps or runs on small devices such like Netbook and MID.

Features

* Standard Ubuntu Linux derivative
* Easy to customize without rebuilding
* Relatively fast and lightweight
* Simple Web-based user interface
* Extensible software plugin and portal"

http://xpud.org/

http://pud.psystar.com/xpud-0.7.zip (76MB)

ftp://140.128.36.142/devel/xpud-0.7.zip

"One of the great things about Puppy is how easy it is to use it as a base for your very own distro. You can install your own programs setup the themes and preferences just the way you like them then use the Remaster option to bundle it all into your very own cd iso. Imagine that, boot from your own live CD and have everything set just how you like it in less than a minute. Many people choose to share their remasters for the benefit of others, we call these versions, puplets."

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets_view/feed