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BackTrack

History

BackTrack merupakan hasil merger dari dua operating system yang memiliki fokus Penetration Testing Distributed Tools yaitu

WHAX: Slax-based Linux distribution yang di develop oleh Mati Aharoni, seorang konsultan security asal Israel. Pada versi sebelumnya WHAX dikenal sebagai Whoppix yang berbasis Knoppix.

Auditor Security Collection: a Live CD berbasis Knoppix yang di develop oleh Max Moser terdiri dari 300 tools penetration testing.

Release Versions

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Date Release
February 5, 2006 BackTrack v.1.0 Beta
May 26, 2006 First release of Backtrack v.1.0
March 6, 2007 BackTrack 2 final released
June 19, 2008 BackTrack 3 final released.
January 9, 2010 BackTrack 4 final release. (Linux kernel 2.6.30.9).
May 8, 2010 BackTrack 4 R1 release.
November 22, 2010 BackTrack 4 R2 release.
May 10, 2011 BackTrack 5 release (Linux kernel 2.6.38).
August 18, 2011 BackTrack 5 R1 release (Linux kernel 2.6.39.4).
March 1, 2012 BackTrack 5 R2 release (Linux kernel 3.2.6[1]).
August 13, 2012 BackTrack 5 R3 release[2].
March 13, 2013 Kali 1.0 release[3]

References

BackTrack 5 R3
Kali Linux