This means that if you choose to install BackTrack to disk, you will be able to get package maintenance and updates by using apt-get commands. Our BackTrack tools are arranged by parent categories. One of the most significant changes introduced in BackTrack 4 are the Debian like repositories available, which are frequently updated with security fixes and new tools. These changes mean that much of what you were used to in BackTrack 2/3 has changed in terms of boot cheatcodes and such, as this kernel shift also means we no longer use the live-linux scripts to create our images. These patches can be found in the kernel sources package (/usr/src/linux/patches).
AUFS is used as the unification filesystem (aufs2.x). Several wireless driver injection/optimization patches have been applied to the kernel, as well as a bootsplash patch. This is especially painful these days, as squashfs is slowly moving into the mainstream kernel (at the time of this writing).īackTrack 4 uses squashfs-tools version 4.0 (which is not backward compatible with previous versions), and the inbuilt squashfs kernel module, which is present in 2.6.29.3. We no longer use lzma enabled squashfs as our live filesystem, which on one hand results in larger ISO size, but on the other hand, frees us from having to maintain our own kernel patches. This new kernel brought an onset of internal changes, which have greatly changed the structure of BackTrack.
We now maintain our own full repositories with modified Ubuntu packages in addition to our own penetration testing tools.Īnother significant change is the updated kernel version, currently at 2.6.29.3. There have been many changes introduced into BackTrack 4 – most notably, our move to an Ubuntu Intrepid base. Security Operations for Beginners (SOC-100).Exploit Development Prerequisites (EXP-100).
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