BackTrack 5 Teaser Screenshots

We�re behind schedule with BackTrack 5, but are working hard to make up for lost time. We thought we�d post a few pictures for your enjoyment of the development BT5 ISO we�re working on. The screenshots were taken on a 2.6.38-rc5 kernel.

The screenshot above is of the KDE 4 theme currently in development.

The screenshot above is of the current OSSIM compatible menu structure (WIP).

The screenshot above is of working IEEE r8187 drivers on our new kernel.

Take into account that many things may and will change in terms of appearance � these are initial mockups are are creating for various environments.

Unfortunately we cannot give an ETA for BT5, but we expect a release in a couple of months at least. If you like our work, we ask that you make a donation to the Hackers for Charity (HFC). Even a small donation will help.

Source : www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-5-screenshots-wip/

BlackBuntu

Blackbuntu is distribution for penetration testing which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security.
Blackbuntu is yet another Ubuntu base distro for Penetration Testing with GNOME Desktop Environment. It's currently being built using the Ubuntu 10.10 and work on reference Back|Track. It's created in our own time as a hobby.
We are pleasure and welcome to all security expert to join us and share the knowledge,
skill, idea and related to make Blackbuntu Project are benefit to everybody.

A release of Blackbuntu CE 0.2 is expected on the 24/01/2011
Changelog
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- remove acroread
- Added fragrouter.
- Added Nemesis.
- Added Bizploit
- Added numlockx (Credit to ptantiku).
- Fixed Pentbox menu error and directory permission.
- Fixed menu wireshark doesn't run as root.
- Recompile Kismet-new core to support Linux Netlink(LibNL/nl80211).
- Kernel modules patched it all up for packet injection/fragmentation/channel hopping,
  etc for wireless radios and (Credit to Alex Ploiter)
  tested it
- Upgrade dradis 2.4.1 to 2.6
- Update and integration of all the tools previosly available in Release 0.1
- Enabled "ctrl+alt+backspace" Key Sequence to kill the X server (Credit to ptantiku).
Many more features for Blackbuntu 0.2 will be known in coming soon.

 http://www.blackbuntu.com/download

Development Release: FreeNAS 8.0 RC1 FreeNAS

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeNAS 8.0, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "I am pleased to announce the availability of the first FreeNAS 8.0 release candidate. More than just a huge jump in version number, FreeNAS 8.0 blends FreeBSD 8.x technology, production-ready ZFS, and a web-based GUI with x86/amd64 hardware to make a NAS device available with a lower barrier to entry. This RC provides a number of enhancements over previous beta snapshots that have been released. The show all volumes screen shows volume status if it is a RAID device. The volume wizard allows for creating ZFS volumes with cache, log, or spare devices. Email to 'root', which includes the daily status and security run reports is now aliased to the email address provided for the GUI admin user." See the release announcement and release notes for further information Download: FreeNAS-8.0-RC1-i386.iso (97.5MB), FreeNAS-8.0-RC1-amd64.iso (101MB).

Summary

Distribution	FreeNAS
Home Page	http://www.freenas.org/
Mailing Lists	http://freenas.org/community:mailing_lists
User Forums	http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/
Documentation	http://freenas.org/documentation:setup_and_user_guide
Screenshots	https://sourceforge.net/apps/gallery/freenas
Download Mirrors	https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/
Bug Tracker	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=151951
Related Web Sites	Learn FreeNAS
Reviews	0.7: Linuxsoft (Czech)
Where To Buy	LinuxCD.org � OSDisc.com (sponsored links)

Source : http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06530