Pentoo


Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64-bit installable live CD. Pentoo is also available as an overlay for an existing Gentoo installation. It features packet injection patched Wi-Fi drivers, GPGPU cracking software, and many tools for penetration testing and security assessment. The Pentoo kernel includes grsecurity and PAX hardening and extra patches - with binaries compiled from a hardened toolchain with the latest nightly versions of some tools available.
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Features

  • Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32 bits
  • Includes the required environment to crack passwords using GPGPU with openCL and CUDA configured 'out of the box'
  • Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain
  • Hardened kernel with extra patches
  • Uses a Pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard Gentoo build
  • Support for full disk encryption with LUKS if installed on HDD
  • Automated installation

Tools

Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds, making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:
  • Analyzer
  • Bluetooth
  • Cracker
  • Database
  • Development
  • Exploit
  • Footprint
  • Forensics
  • Forging
  • Fuzzers
  • Misc
  • MitM
  • Pentoo
  • Proxy
  • RCE
  • Scanner
  • SIP-VOIP
  • Wireless

Releases

Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO of the latest committed updates.
DateRelease
2005/06/22Pentoo 2005.1
2006/02/02Pentoo 2006.0
2006/07/05Pentoo 2006.1
2009/12/04Pentoo 2009.0
2012/07/30Pentoo 2012.0
2013/03/09Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.1
2013/07/04Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.8
2014/08/08Pentoo 2013.0 RC1.9
2014/03/17Pentoo 2014.0 RC2.1
2014/08/08Pentoo 2014.0 RC3
2014/09/25Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.5
2014/11/16Pentoo 2014.0 RC3.6
2015/01/05Pentoo 2015.0 RC3.7
2015/12/02Pentoo 2015.0 RC4.6
2016/08/02Pentoo 2015.0 RC5
2018/03/26Pentoo 2018.0 RC6.3
2018/07/10Pentoo 2018.0 RC7.1
2019/01/17Pentoo 2019.0
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2025/11/03Pentoo 2025.0