BackBox

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BackBox was designed with consideration of customisation and system performance. It uses the light window manager Xfce, which contributes to its relatively low resource usage. It also has an assistive community behind it.

It includes commonly used security and analysis Linux tools, aiming for a wide spread of goals, including web application analysis, network analysis, stress testing, sniffing, vulnerability assessment, computer forensic analysis and exploitation, and other tools.

Part of the significance of this distribution comes from its Launchpad repository core, frequently updated to the latest stable version of the most known and used ethical hacking tools. The integration and development of new tools in the distribution follows the open source community, particularly the Debian Free Software Guidelines criteria.