Pentoo 2012.0 Defcon Beta

We are really doing it this time folks, we are really making a release.  Thanks to my whole team we are rocking brand new and shiny everything.

This beta was made in haste, during defcon, while holding my laptop and walking around the con while it was compiling.  I can't believe the poor thing didn't melt in the Vegas afternoon sun.

I'm not going to say much here, except please try it.  Download the iso, and don't waste your time telling us we are awesome (we already know that) or that we suck (go back to ubuntu).  Instead, if you are going to spend some time writing us an email, please tell us what is missing, and what is completely worthless to you.  we have included as many tools as possible in this release for all kinds of pen-testing, but I'm sure I've missed a few, and left a few old/crappy ones in and we need YOUR input to make Pentoo better.

No more putting off for tomorrow what you can hack today, begin the revolution:

http://dev.pentoo.ch/~zero/isos

-Zero_Chaos and the Pentoo Team

Arise from the ashes

We are still here folks, I know it's hard to believe.  There has been a lot of life keeping us busy, Grimmlin is now a proud husband and father (in that order and more than 9 months apart), and I am flying ~200 times a year for work. Many things have changed, we moved our bug tracker and svn (I still hate git) from pentoo.ch to googlecode, and we have significantly tightened our integration into gentoo.  About 6 weeks ago I was officially welcomed into the development team for Gentoo Linux, so my time has been evenly split between pushing critical packages and fixes up to Gentoo, and building live cds for development testing. Given the fact that I have never done anything like this, it has been a rough ride, especially since I've been building on my i5 laptop ;-) At HOPE I ran my mouth a little bit, and suggested I would have a public beta available for Defcon, which currently looks like it simply isn't going to happen.  Been a little too busy with fun things and not so fun things and just plain stuck on a few bugs which prevent the build from going properly.  None of these problems are major, and as such please stay tuned after Defcon.  Gentoo has promised a new release of a few things I need around July 30th so I should be able to kick out a nice public beta some time in August.

Just as a teaser, here are things which are already complete:

1.)New "pentoo" profiles which allow you to use hardened or not at your choice (who wants to be soft?)
2.)Full gpu cracking support for both cuda and opencl on both amd/ati and nvidia hardware including but not limited to pyrit, johntheripper, oclhashcat-plus, oclhashcat-lite
3.)Shiny 3.4.2 kernel (hardened or not)
4.)Full support for the ubertooth hardware (also added to kismet and wireshark)
5.)New radio category for sdr hacking for things like the rtl-sdr and Ettus USRP devices.
6.) 64 bit version (32 bit is a low priority until after the beta starts, sorry if your hardware is that old/crappy)

Things which are planned in a short order:

1.) Full arm support
2.)Openbts, for when hacking wifi just isn't cool enough to get the girl ;-)

Again, these are the short lists, the real changelog and planned features are mostly hiding in our >3000 commits in svn.  This will be a gem folks, if you have ever wanted a no-nonsense pen-testing distribution, this will be it.  Our aim is to be the rulers of this planet, even if only in our own minds.

See you soon, we will be talking again when we rock your work.

Sincerely,
Zero_Chaos and the entire Pentoo team

PS> I'm hiding out in Vegas in the Wireless Village at Defcon XX so stop by and let me know what's on your mind.

Pentoo installation made easy

It happened! The pentoo installer is finally here!
Jensp did an awesome work and ported the Arch linux installer to pentoo.


It is still in testing for now, but you are welcome to try it, I just did and can tell it's easy as pie.


The following is done from a booted pentoo-2009.0 livecd with the network already configured
First, sync your pentoo repo.
layman -s pentoo
Unmask the pentoo-installer
echo "=pentoo/pentoo-installer-0.1.3" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords/pentoo
Emerge the installer
emerge pentoo-installer
Just run it and follow the informations given by the menus
# pentoo-installer

Let us know what you think and if you encounter a bug, please report it on the trac development site.

Update: pentoo-installer has been stabilized, you don't need to unmask it

Migrate to official e17 repository

Hi there,

I migrated to the new enlightenment foundation library repository overlay.

The one provided from gentoo seems deprecated and if you like bleeding edge, go for efls' one.

Here is how to do it in 4 easy steps:

1. Add the EFL overlay http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Gentoo
2. Unmerge the old e17 packages
3. Update the portage profile for e17
4. Install the new ones and reconfigure your desktop

So, for step 1, just follow the indications in the link or yet better, make it permanent in layman like so:

In /etc/layman/layman.cfg add the http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/packaging/gentoo/Documentation/layman/overlays.xml url under the following line :

overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt

After that, run layman -L and layman -a efl.

Step 2, here's a list of packages you need to unmerge :

x11-plugins/e_modules-wlan x11-plugins/e_modules-calendar x11-plugins/e_modules-language x11-plugins/itask-ng x11-plugins/e_modules-bling x11-plugins/e_modules-net x11-plugins/e_modules-cpu x11-plugins/winlist_ng x11-plugins/e_modules-screenshot x11-plugins/extramenu x11-plugins/e_modules-mem x11-plugins/e_modules-weather x11-libs/esmart x11-libs/ecore x11-libs/e_dbus x11-libs/evas x11-misc/emprint x11-misc/entrance media-libs/edje media-libs/imlib2 x11-wm/enlightenment dev-libs/efreet dev-libs/eet dev-libs/embryo dev-libs/eina dev-libs/exml

Just use emerge -C with the above package list and you'll be good to go.

For step 3, if you want to use a specific snapshot of e17 (recommended) you need to get the portage env files from https://www.pentoo.ch/svn/livecd/trunk/portage/env and put it in /etc/portage. Check out our svn tree and copy our env files.

svn co https://www.pentoo.ch/svn/livecd/trunk/portage/env /var/svn/pentoo/portage/env

cp /var/svn/pentoo/portage/env /etc/portage/

You can update to a specific snapshot by following http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news and specify the specific revision inside those env files.

Step 4, use the method described on the official E17 gentoo guide and create a set like this:

cat > /etc/portage/sets/enlightenment << EOF
=app-text/epdf-9999
=dev-libs/ecore-9999
=dev-libs/e_dbus-9999
=dev-libs/eet-9999
=dev-libs/eina-9999
=dev-libs/embryo-9999
=dev-libs/efreet-9999
=media-libs/edje-9999
=media-libs/emotion-9999
=media-libs/ethumb-9999
=media-libs/evas-9999
=net-libs/exchange-9999
=x11-wm/enlightenment-9999
=enlightenment-base/e_module-notification-9999
=enlightenment-base/e_module-tclock-9999
=enlightenment-base/e_module-itask-ng-9999
EOF

Don't forget to also keywords the above list ** to be able to merge them!

You can now emerge/update enlightenment by doing:

layman -s efl && emerge -av $(cat /etc/portage/sets/enlightenment)

Also, you should set your use flags accordingly. A good and updated description of what to USE is at http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Gentoo#Defineyouruseflags

Enjoy the newest e17 experience.

Pentoo recursivity

Well, sort of... This is the latest pentoo build, running pentoo in qemu using virt-manager.
We don't have kvm support yet, but this is planned.

It is running our latest 2.6.31 kernel and wifi is 2.6.27_rc7 with a bunch of patches.

The new release should be out by this week.

New Kernel for next release

So, we could have some patches for sqlzma in 2.6.31 and we got the new compat-wireless 2.6.32_rc5.

Our new kernel is not stable yet but once we can sort out all the minor issues we still have, we'll be making an updated version.

Anyway, they're all in our tree so ppl wanting to try it out can
layman -s pentoo

Cheers to jensp for helping out with the sqlzma patches.

Beta late than never

It's finally here!

We are releasing the beta version of both the 32 and the 64 bit version.
Here are the main features :

• Changes saving
• Enhanced cracking software
• NTLM/MD4/MD5 cuda bruteforcer
• WPA PSK rainbowtables generation accelerated through CUDA, STREAM or PADLOCK
• John The Ripper with MPI support allowing you to run it on all your local or remote cores
• Kernel 2.6.29 and wifi 2.6.31_rc4 with all the patches from Zero, including the freq patches for ath5k
• Tons of new tools
• Enlightenment DR17, built from SVN

You can put it on an USB STICK but it also fits on CD :-)

It's all available on http://www.pentoo.ch/

Cheers
Zero and Grimmlin

Cuda, Stream, MPI and Multiforcer...

Have you heard about those GPU cracking software ? Well, we did, and here is the outcome, after hacking a bit with the code, we provide you with some nice cuda, stream and padlock pyrit versions


Althought the card is a crappy nvidia mobile, we can see that it works fine. Well, it works at least :-) but here's better perfs on my ati 4850:


The latests patches for john does it all, we can finally load those slacking cores a bit

Oh, and what does Multiforcer stands for ?

:-) this time we promise, the beta is comming soon!

Grimmlin & ZC

Deadline approaching

There's been some sort of activity lately, and here is what's coming from it :
I moved all the services to a new server, and fixed a little bit of the web design. We're now settled to begin releasing.
I Updated our kernel to use the 2.6.28 sources along with aufs and sqlzma. Zero should be working on the wifi patches already.
We also plan on publishing our portage tree so ppl can benefit from our ebuilds and kernel sources.

We should come up with a beta release by the end of january. You can join us on irc if you want to check out alpha release and help us out.





BTW, here is what the future theme will look like

We're actually growing

Hi,

We've had a lot of troubles catching ourselves on the project, but I finally have some good and bad news.

The bad is that gentoo totally dropped unionfs from their genkernel tool.
The good is that I forked it and I've included some extra stuff:

• Moved to aufs
• Changes saving is supported from the kernel loading, before the system starts so you can completely customize it.
  
• You can create the file from within the boot-up so it's very easy to setup

That's it for the kernel/initrd generation...

People from LSO joined the project, so you can expect a really nice quality emerging from Pentoo, once it will be ready for takeoff.

Rumors, rumors... Zero told me that he's working on our custom 2.6.25 kernel...

If you want to help the project, you can catch us on irc://irc.freenode.net/#pentoo

That's it for now

Project status update

So as I said, we are _still_ working on pentoo and from the last couple of weeks, i can tell that :

- Catalyst building is working.
- Menu generation is somewhat working
- Move from unionfs to aufs is working
- I could get rid of QT (wouhou)
- There will be some very cool stuff in a future release. :)

Actually, the last test i ran made me a 563M (including portage tree!), letting some room for more tools, kernel and so on. I could even patch the kernel for lzm support but i don't feel like it need it atm.

Grimmlin

Our new todo list

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since we updated the project so here it is :

Since Zero and me broke the base system, we have to start over from scratch for the next pentoo version. It should be done entirely with catalyst.

Meanwhile, I'm migrating the server to a new host.

We have both a lot to do in real life at the moment but we _are_ willing to continue the development so don't worry, there will be a new version coming out.

Cheers
Grimmlin

Site maintenance

Hi there,

The site will be mostly unavailable tomorrow Saturday the 18 November from 8h30 am to 11h30 am GMT+1. We have some hardware and software maintenance scheduled on our server.

BTW, we are testing the new 2006.2 fat version and we're getting closer to a release so stay tunned.

New developer and progress

Recently, Zero_Chaos from aircrack-ng teamed up with us and joined the pentoo development effort.

He is literally making the kernel happy with all the wifi drivers and patches.

So, to update the previous statement, we were sleeping but he is now here to kick our asses and push pentoo to the max...

Still around

We're not dead, we're just sleeping...

Actually i have a lot of stuff to do in the real world but I'm still working on pentoo. I n fact, I'm more working on the catalyst version atm but i still expect to throw out a beta sometime in the near future.

For the catalyst version, i made a little program that should generate the e17 menu automagically.

Stay tuned

MacBook Pro booted on pentoo

I just had the opportunity to test pentoo on a MacBook pro and i can tell that it boots to e17 without problem and really fast, thanks to the intel core duo!

The wifi is detected as a an atheros adapter and the ati chip is working well with X11. The only thing i did not test was the sound

Catalyst and pentoo

I was finally able to understand the catalyst process correctly, thanks to this howto done by Lucas Casagrande.

I've also started to do another install of gentoo, this time for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu...

Meanwhile, i've done some testing of the fat 2006.1 SMP and after some compilations done i can tell that unionfs is pretty stable.

Upcomming 2006.1 Fat version

I've rebuilt the kernel to include SMP and HT support. I'll have to test out the unionfs 1.2 to see if it's stable enough.

Meanwhile, I've started to write down some ideas for the future pentoo versions that'll be done with catalyst.

I'm going into vacations from the 5 to the 20 august so don't expect news until then.

New Mini-Pentoo 2006.1 to be released

Well, this is almost official, the 2006.1 is to be released tonight or tomorrow. In a sense, when i'll have the time to do it.

Here is the Changelog :

Added wifi injection support for the following drivers :
Madwifi-ng, Hostap, wlan-ng, rtl8180, prism54/GT
Integrated the portagedb so no need for the module during install.
Created a mplayer module.
Added some firefox extensions: Live-Http-Headers, Temper-data, ShowIP, No-Referrer

Updated
Nessus, Yersinia, bluediving, metasploit, nmap, kernel(2.6.16-r7)

Added :
Kismet autoconfigure script, based on airmon-ng.
The pentoo installer, based on gentoo's one.
Wifitap, tcpdump, Impacket, ipw3945 driver, Realtek RTL 8168 driver, zd1211 driver,
irssi, aircrack-ng, ipsorcery, Bluetooth stack smasher, arpwatch, hexedit, slocate.

Meanwhile, i've updated a lot the fat version, allowing it to grow up to 660 Mb. More infos about it soon.