BackTrack 5 Released – The Most Advanced Linux Security Distribution & LiveCD

The BackTrack Dev team has worked furiously in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution” – they released it on May 10th. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all our previous releases. It’s based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS – Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully open source and GPL compliant.

The interesting part for me is that the new .ISO downloads offer multiple versions, including a choice between GNOME and KDE desktops and the images include ARM, 32-Bit and 64-Bit versions.

New in Version 5

  • Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS;
  • Linux kernel 2.6.38 (with wireless injection patches);
  • KDE 4.6;
  • GNOME 2.6;
  • 32-bit and 64-bit support;
  • Metasploit 3.7.0;
  • Forensics mode (a forensically sound instance);
  • Stealth mode (without generating network traffic);
  • Initial ARM image of BackTrack (for Android-powered devices);
  • All support for Backtrack 4 will end on May 10th, 2011 and BackTrack 4 will not be available for download from our official mirrors from that date onwards.

As for the ARM image, they have had some joy getting BackTrack running on a Motorola Xoom tablet – check it out here.

You can download BackTrack version 5 here:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/