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.
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)