Matriux Blue Light For Linux

Matriux Blue Light is a special edition of the Matriux Linux operating system, based on the award-winning Debian GNU/Linux distribution and built around various tools oriented towards security professionals who are looking for an easy to used distro designed for digital forensics and penetration testing.

The Blue Light edition of the Matriux Linux distribution is available for download free of charge from the project’s official homepage or via Softpedia. Users can grab a Live DVD ISO image that contains software packages optimized only for the 64-bit (x86_64) instruction set architecture.

Being based on Debian GNU/Linux, the Live DVD boot menu is identical with the one of the upstream Debian release, allowing the user to start the live system with normal configuration or in failsafe mode, perform a system memory (RAM) diagnostic test, as well as to boot an existing OS from the local drive.

The Matriux Blue Light edition uses GNOME 3 as the default and only desktop environment, providing users with a modern and easy to use interface that comprises of a panel located on the upper part of the screen, from where you can launch applications, interact with opened programs, access essential system settings, as well as to cycle between virtual workspaces.

Being designed from the offset to be used by security professionals, the distribution comes with a wide range of security-oriented applications, among which we can mention Maltego, John the Ripper, JHijack, Mac changer, Kismet client, Kismet drone, Airbase-NG, Aircrack-NG, Angry IP Scanner, BlindElephant, Beef, BruteSSH, Chaosmap, DirBuster, EtherApe, pOf, Ettercap, Fern Wi-Fi cracker, GeoIPGen, HTC-Hydra GUI, IRDP responder, Netmask, as well as OWASP Mantra.