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Welcome to the Pentoo LiveCd Project page
Pentoo is a security focused livecd based on Gentoo. It's basically a custom Gentoo distro with the Pentoo overlay on top of it, featuring hundreds of security tools.
We're using the awesome Gentoo Catalyst building tools to generate our livecd, allowing us to easily recompile everything from scratch for each new release, and build it for different architecture. By the way, we're the only security distro to feature both a x86 and x86_64 livecd. Oh, and an arm build is under way :-).
Security
We recently switched to a hardened profile featuring:
- RELRO (relocating writable sections elsewhere and marking R--)
- Stack Canaries (validate that saved eip hasn't changed)
- NX (Mark the stack non-executable)
- PIE/PIC (Position Independent Executable/Code?, allowing ASLR)
Our kernel also uses the Grsecurity & PaX patches We had to slightly modify the base Gentoo Workstation profile to allow binary GPU drivers to function by disabling UDEREF and /dev/kmem protection. You can blame ATI for that.
All of that means you'll get a more secured OS than any other security distros.
What is it all about ?
This page serves as a collaboration point for ppl interested in Pentoo. If you don't know what it is, you hit the wrong page...
There are different stuff lying around :
