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5 Best Linux Distros for Installation on a USB Stick

5 Best Linux Distros for Installation on a USB Stick Puppy Linux For the longest while,  Puppy Linux  has been seen as little more than a curiosity. Designed to be used on the most austere of hardware, it could comfortably chug away on early Pentium machines without breaking a sweat. But it wasn’t that practical. Many installed it on their antique hardware to see how little ‘oomph’ it needed, and then forgot about it. But it never went away. Updates and new versions are still regularly released. Sure, it’s still stripped down; it can run on low-end and underpowered hardware. But you can now use it to get stuff done. There are three different versions of Puppy. One, called  Slacko Puppy  is based upon SlackWare, which is one of the longest established Linux distributions. People continue to use it as their day-to-day operating system.  People understand it . Another is built around Ubuntu 14:04 LTS,  called TahrPup . The third versi...

Top 50 Hacking Tools That You Must Have

Whether you are a Penetration tester, a hacker or an aspiring newbie trying to learn Cyber Security, you must have a nice catalogue of tools to make your life easier. While these tools do make working simpler but cannot compensate for the vast amount of knowledge required in this field. In this post there are 50 different tools under 9 categories that your ‘Hack Lab’ must have. Most of the tools mentioned are pre-included in  Kali Linux  which you can install to have them at once. Intrusion Detection Systems :- These are the tools you must have if you’re building a hack lab for penetration testing or for any security arrangement. They help you detect of any threats that might harm the system. Snort NetCop Encryption Tools :- While the above tools do identify any suspicious activity but they can’t protect your data, you need encryption tools for that. TrueCrypt  (The project has been shut down and no longer supported) OpenSSH Putty OpenSSL Tor...

240 Linux Distros And Their Official Websites

Linux is all about freedom, experiments and versatility. We all know about popular Linux distros like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat etc., but do you know that there are over 400 Linux distros. So if the adventurous geek inside you is still alive, here is a list of 240 active Linux distribution with their official websites for you to try your hands on.   Absolute Linux Official website AbulEdu Official website AgiliaLinux Official website aLinux Official website Alpine Linux Official website ALT Linux Official website Antergos Official website antiX Official website aptosid Official website Arch Linux Official website ArchBang Linux Official website Archie Official website AriOS Official website ArtistX Official website AsteriskNOW Official website Asturix Official website AUSTRUMI Official website AV Linux Official website BackBox Linux Official website Berry Linux Official website BigLinux Official website Bio-Linux Official website blackPanther Offi...