Dlive Airo For Linux

Dlive Airo is an open source distribution of Linux based on Debian GNU/Linux and built around the lightweight and traditional Xfce desktop environment. It includes a wide range of open source tools tailored for security professional who want a minimal and very fast penetration testing OS.

The distribution is available for download as a single, dual-arch Live CD ISO image that will run well on both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms. Please note that you must write the ISO image to a blank CD disc or a USB flash drive in order to boot it from the BIOS of a PC.

The GRUB powered boot menu will allow you to start the live environment with default options or in safe graphics mode (fail-safe mode), as well as with a Linux kernel from the 3.5 branch for 32-bit (i486) platforms.

Being designed to be a fast and lightweight operating system for security professionals, Dlive Airo comes with the traditional and easy-to-use Xfce desktop environment, which comprises of a single taskbar located on the bottom edge of the screen, from where the user can quickly launch applications or interact with running programs.

The system comes pre-installed with the powerful aircrack-ng suite, including all of its plugins and dependencies. Among other penetration testing utilities, we can mention Wireshark, Zenmap, John The Ripper, Macchanger, SSLstrip, dSniff, Pyrit and Hydra.

Beside the Xfce-specific utilities, default applications include the Midori web browser, Audacious audio player, XTerm and UXTerm terminal emulators, X File Explorer, and ImageMagick image converter.

Summing up, Dlive Airo is without no doubt one of the fastest and lightest operating system suitable for penetration testing tasks. It combines easy-to-use Xfce desktop environment with the powerful Debian technologies.