BlackArch Linux based Arch Linux. Lightweight Penetration Testing Distro designed for Professional & Elite Hackers who have the ability to work with Linux like a Pro.
Used to use Fluxbox & OpenBox as a Desktop Environment with other DE’s. It has huge tools in the repository more than 1500+ hacking tool included in the Distro & Repo.
The first release was on 2013 and on 2017.06.13 new version was released which includes more than 1800 tools now.
New ISOs (2017.06.13) released! Over 1800 tools, newest kernel, … and more! Get it while it's hot: https://t.co/gCWhQ9rBJR #blackarch
— BlackArch Linux (@blackarchlinux) June 14, 2017
A short ChangeLog of the Live-ISOs:
– add more than 100 new tools
– update blackarch installer to version 0.5.1 (bugfixes + features)
– fix several tools (dependencies, installs)
– include linux kernel 4.11.3
– updated all blackarch tools
– updated all system packages
– update all window manager menus (awesome, fluxbox, openbox)
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BlackArch’s features
– Support for i686, x86_64, armv6h, armv7h and aarch64 architectures
– Over 1800 tools (constantly increasing)
– Modular package groups
– A live ISO with multiple window managers, including dwm, fluxbox,
openbox, awesome, wmii, i3 and spectrwm.
– An 64bit OVA image ready to use with Virtualbox and VMware
– An optional installer with the ability to build from source.
How Do Update for latest version
It is really Simple we just need to run the command pacman -Syyu –needed –force blackarch , you should log in as a root user to do this.
BlackArch team said they are to release a new version of ISOs in few hours with the fix for perl issues and with kernel 4.11.4. To Download BlackArch Click here.
We will release another version of the new ISOs in few hours, which will fix the perl issues (rebuilt libraries) and includes kernel 4.11.4
— BlackArch Linux (@blackarchlinux) June 14, 2017
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