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- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I'll have to see if this is as good as Knoppix-STD, WHAX, or the Auditor. I wish they would all work together. ;("
Well, Auditor and WHAX are combining
Anyway, we'll see.. If it has better hardware detection/workingness.. *Hugs*
- Ben - Califax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool +digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Auditor, anyone?
- windwaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ryouko, that's really off topic. (rated)
I'll have to see if this is as good as Knoppix-STD, WHAX, or the Auditor. I wish they would all work together. ;( - ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I prefer Knoppix-STD but I'll give this a shot since it's Slack-based
- haidut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guys, I am one of the developers of Arudius. Thanks to all for trying it out. To those who say that there aren't many tools - we probably have more network security tools than most other distros our there. We don't include things like forensic tools because out focus is network security. As far as I know the only distro that has more tools is PHLAK but their ISO is 3 times the size of ours, loads more slowly and can't load fully in RAM. Arudius packs a quite large collection of useful tools in 200MB of size, boots fast and can load fully in RAM with the 'copy2ram' boot option. Why is this important - try running more than one tool from the CD and see how long it takes. The CD is not a hard disk, so when I tried to launch several tools it almost killed my CD-ROM drive spinnig like crazy trying to locate all the binaries and load them in memory. Even then, running a Nessus scan is a royal pain the neck, slow as hell. Furthermore, Arudius is built using Linux Live scripts by the creator of Slax. Anybody who has used Slax knows about its nice modularity features - you can create your own modules and load them as necessary or even remaster the ISO file and include them permanently in the image using the "MySlax Creator" tool for Windows. That modularity was the reason why the Whoppix guys switched over from the Knoppix platform to Slax and called their distro Whax. BTW, let me emphasize that Arudius is not Slax. It has been built from scratch using Zenwalk Core (former Minislack) minimalistic distro and only the Linux Live scripts of Slax have been used. Furthermore - Arudius is developed by people who work in the IT security industry and has become part of their daily tasks, which ensures that it will have regular updates and won't disappear in 2-3 months like other distros. We will also be releasing a Fedora- and Debian- based Arudius which should make it even easier for people to remaster because of the large number of binary packages out there. And last but not least, in one of the next releases we will be including a web content filtering tool like Websense or DansGuardian none of which are currently free for commercial use. So there are things that make us different from the rest of the pack and that's good, because as one person above said "competition is good". Take care and keep checking for updates on the Freshmeat site.
- 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's also the PHLAK distro, based on Morphix.
- mogwhy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whats it like in compared to Whoppix / Whax?
- craterburnsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea there are too many live distros out there in my opinion, they should do the same thing as Whoppix/WHAX and auditor are doing, and merging to good live Cd's. Takes a few people out of the market, and adds 1 really good one. Essentially they all have the exact same stuff beneath them, unless one is updated and one isn't.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"have anyone loaded this yet? There are only a handful of tools (2 wireless and 10 wired). Totally not worth the download.
Unless i'm missing something"
Yep, the one's listed are only the GUI tools..
Open the terminal, then cat arudius_list.txt :)
The ones you can run by just typing the name, you access in /usr/local
Anyway, it looks usefull/fast (WHAX and Auditor take a while to load up, which can be a bit annoying), I've played around with it with VMWare, and it's working fine, I've not burned it yet, if it works with my laptops wifi card.. o/
- Ben - Mambo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Direct link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arudius/
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Yea there are too many live distros out there in my opinion, they should do the same thing as Whoppix/WHAX and auditor are doing, and merging to good live Cd's. Takes a few people out of the market, and adds 1 really good one. Essentially they all have the exact same stuff beneath them, unless one is updated and one isn't."
i'd rather they stay seperate. it's healthy competition. - r00t3d0ut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm surprised that this distro didn't make it to Distrowatch.
- honeycut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thanks for the info folks - you saved me the download. I've been using auditor for a little while and happy to stick with it. Thanks again.
- IceColdFever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0have anyone loaded this yet? There are only a handful of tools (2 wireless and 10 wired). Totally not worth the download.
Unless i'm missing something - bg_27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i second "auditor" i use it often for work
- Mirag3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0try auditor, its so much better. Includes EVERYTHING you could possible need for penetration. However, you do need to have a compatible Wi-fi card. Anyway, this is *****, while i succesfully penetrated 128 bit WEP encryption with Auditor in fifteen minutes.
- troth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its an ok program, very stripped down to the essentials
- ryouko, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0what else is new.
Check out the new & improved 
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