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jlc

Dec 9 2003, 05:09 PM

This is very interesting distro that just poped up.

http://www.phlak.org/modules/news/

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PHLAK is a modular security distribution, geared to be used as a live CD. PHLAK was created to become the only tool security professionals would need to perform security analysis, penetration testing, forensics, and security auditing. PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox and XFCE4), packages for printing, publishing, a little multimedia, many security tools, and a file cabinet full of security related documentation for your reading/educational purposes. PHLAK is a direct fork of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf.

jlc

Dec 9 2003, 09:50 PM

Will I played with the "from cd" option on my box at work and well, I installed it to hard drive!

It's a mix of knoppix/morphix and all most all the security tools you need. It also uses the unstable branch of debian with no other repository's. All I can say is

ShadowFoxLSU

Dec 10 2003, 05:21 AM

Interesting, but how does she handle? Fast, slow, bloated?

jlc

Dec 10 2003, 01:58 PM

QUOTE (ShadowFoxLSU @ Dec 9 2003, 11:21 PM)

Interesting, but how does she handle? Fast, slow, bloated?

it's pretty nice, full of security tools, the base xfce is setup nice. apt sources are off of sid.

CODE

# Yes, we use non-official repositories (for XFree4.3 and Gnome2.4)
# Yes, it's yucky. Yes, it might possibly break something somewhere in the futur
e
# However, together with apt-pinning the current install, things should work
# pretty well... and if it breaks, you get both pieces :)
#deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./
#deb http://people.debian.org/~fpeters/gnome2.4/ ./
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib

Here's a screen shot of the standard desktop.

http://omarserenity.com/images/phlakscreenie1.jpg

Full install was about 1.5GB but that is a lot of security tools, flux & xfce are the only things installed but you can apt-get what ever you want. The install is based off of morphix&knoppix. This is a df -h on an install here at work.

CODE

bash-2.05b# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 18G 1.5G 17G 9% /
/dev/root 18G 1.5G 17G 9% /

Anyway, kind of fun distro.

slr

Dec 10 2003, 04:42 PM

Looks promising...I might give it a shot...

sarah31

Dec 11 2003, 04:29 PM

um a security distro that uses unstable sources (yes i realize unstable is not necessarily referring to the actual source) that "may break" your system? that's pretty halfassed.

jlc

Dec 11 2003, 04:45 PM

After playing for awhile, installing it locally is kind of jerky with speed. Off of the cd, it runs great.

sarah31, the main idea behind this is to run it from cd and "do what you need to" for special purposes.

So wether or not there from Debian's "unstable" branch really doesn't matter since they were tested before they created the cd iso. All the tools I have ran from it worked great. I fixed a slackware box yesterday here at work because I messed up the boot on it.

Anyway, it has it's advantages to keep one in your laptop bag or jacket pocket.

bvc

Dec 11 2003, 04:50 PM

what does security and break have in common? Nothing!

capnkirby

Dec 11 2003, 07:27 PM

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what does security and break have in common? Nothing

Only if your microstiff!

Capn

jlc

Jan 15 2004, 02:19 PM

This is to cool, here is a screen shot of the latest release with the boot option.

"phlak desktop=sneaky"

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