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Vector Linux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware.
The enormously popular Slackware is the true Unix of Linux distributions and is used by major corporations, universities and home users alike. Its popularity stems from the fact that it is a robust, versatile and almost unbreakable system.
Slackware has been traditionally known to be about as user friendly as a coiled rattlesnake and thats where Vector Linux comes into play. We have produced a bloat free, easy to install, configure and maintain Slackware based system that is second to none.
Main features:
- Kernel version 2.6.7 available in ide or scsi configurations.
- Glibc-2.3.2
- Available as a text console system or with optional XFree GUI
- XFree-4.3.x is the default X system.
- New graphical package manager has been added, vecpkg.
- Easy on your system resources, should run fine with a minimum of 32mb of ram
- Only reguires 850 megs of disk space for full install (but you should have more available for additional programs and swap space)
- Laptop support including pcmcia and apm.
- Usb support with hotplugging
- Most available Linux hardware drivers are included.
- XFCE4, Fluxbox and ICEwm window managers with antialias font support. More available on the deluxe CD.
- KDE-3.2.3 and dropline-gnome is available on the deluxe CD version.
- Internet ready with Mozilla-1.7, Dillo, Gaim, Xchat and more. Mplayer, flash, acrobat reader and java all available on the deluxe CD.
- Abiword a stand alone full featured word processor that imports exports MS word style documents. OpenOffice available on the deluxe CD.
- Xview and GQview for viewing, manipulating and editing graphics files
- The Gimp a very sophisticated image creation program available on the deluxe CD
- XMMS to play most music formats including CDs
- A full compliment of GUI programs to handle email, file management, text editing, sound manipulation, file compression, desktop themes and more.
- Full development suite with most common libraries, compilers and related tools.
- Gcc updated to version 3.2.3.
- fully functional ftp server based on proFTPD
- PPP setup wizard for easy connection to the net via your modem. Both pppsetup and wvdial available. Update gkdial is now available also.
- VI style text editors, mutt for email, lynx text web browsing, Midnight Commander file manager, ncftp, telnet, ping, finger and all the basic networking applications and daemons.
- Vim, apache, mysql, Emacs, samba, screen all available on the deluxe CD version.
- Added security with a built in gshield firewall, port sentry, openssl and openssh..
- Enhanced USB support with hotplugging.
- The default file manager (midnight commander) will install uninstall all software packages including rpms, slps, debs, and tgz.
Enhancements:
- The VectorLinux development team is proud to announce the release of VectorLinux 5.8 Standard, code named Santa (Merry Christmas!). This is the fruit that has resulted from several months of coding, debugging and testing by the core development team and the VectorLinux community. This release follows our legendary tradition of stability (inherited from Slackware 11.0), blazing speed on even modest hardware, and simplicity of design and function. The release features fully-working browser plugins, including Flash 9, Java, mp3, Real and Windows media, and DVD playback. Additional features include: Linux kernel 2.6.18.5, fully customized Xfce 4.3.99.2, SeaMonkey 1.0.6, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.10, the GIMP and Xara LX for your graphic needs, AbiWord and Gnumeric for your office tasks...

This project provides software suitable for smartcard based digital signature and both local and remote authentication security services. It can also be used to integrate smart card technology into a working Certification Authority that issues public key certificates for the users through the web.

For example, we provide a module that is known to work with the OpenCA Certification Authority for on-board keypair generation.

Our software works with different kinds of smart cards. Actually we have modules that work with Schlumberger Cyberflex Access 16K and Cryptoflex 16K smart cards and any Java Card 2.1.1 compliant smart card (i.e. both Schlumberger Cyberflex Access 32K and Gemplus GemXpresso 211/PK).

Our software has been developed and tested with Towitokos CHIPDRIVE and Schlumbergers Reflex 72 card readers. It is known to work fine with Gemplus GCR410, GCR400FD, GemPC and Microsystems SCM readers too.

Here are some of its functionalities:

automatic storing of private key and public certificate on the smartcard during the interaction with OpenCA for the "certification process"
use of smartcard to sign e-mail and e-news from within Netscape Messenger
use of smartcard to sign/verify every kind of file with a simple shell command
smartcard-based authentication of local users to a system by means of a public key authentication protocol
smartcard-based authentication of remote users to a system by means of a smart card enabled OpenSSH
interactive command line browsing and invoking of all supported card commands for Cyberflex cards (ISO 7816 compliant and not)

Quake2Forge project is a portable, stable Quake II engine.
Quake2Forge is a portable, stable Quake II engine maintaining backward-compatibility with id Softwares version.
QuakeForge is a 3D graphics game engine based on id Softwares legendary Quake and QuakeWorld game engine. Our purpose? To improve the state of the game by improving the engine and making it accessable to the largest number of players we can.
Arguably the single most important issue on the minds of players today is the rampant cheating which is currently happening on many of the larger servers. Its a serious problem and it really makes a good game hard to find. Were working hard to fix these problems at the engine level.
But what good is that if you have to have a copy of our client and the server has to run our server? There are other projects out there and some of them have very unique qualities. QuakeForge is cooperating with QSG, a group comprised of representatives from nearly every known Quake source project to ensure that our clients and servers run with other clients and servers just fine. We have all agreed to implement any effective cheat prevention methods.
Other things were doing include merging the two code trees, adding features, and improving the OpenGL renderer. And QuakeForge is still the most portable source tree based on the id Software code.
Enhancements:
- bring back a bunch of fixes from 0.5.3 (including news items) that got lost in the rushed release of 0.5.4
- more cvar renaming: scr_consize -> con_size, scr_conspeed -> con_speed, gl_conalpha -> con_alpha, vid_conwidth -> con_width, vid_conheight -> con_height, show_fps -> hud_fps, show_ping
- demo_speed no longer affects console scrolling or cursor blink rate
- save game loading fixed
- QNX fixes from Mike Gorchak
- server clients work with mvds

vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor is a VTK class (actually FLTK too, but it helps to think of it as VTK) that enables VTK to render to and interact with your FLTK application.
It is based on code by David Pont (the code was then called FlvtkInteractorWindow) which in its turn was partly based on the wxVTK code by David D. Marshall and Brian Todd. I reworked the code extensively to be simpler, more robust and bug-free(tm). It should always be available from.
The main idea behind this class is to be as simple and robust as possible.
It is possible to have multiple VTK renderings (all active) in your FLTK application, each with its own independent working VTK interactorstyle. You can also add custom interactorstyles, just like with any standard VTK interactor. Picking also works fine, thank you. vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor library fulfils one purpose and thats to enable you to write applications with FLTK and VTK.
This code has been successfully tested on Linux, Irix, Windows and many of the other platforms supported by ITK, as the vtkFlRWI is extensively used in the InsightApplications component of ITK.
Enhancements:
- This release was updated for VTK 5.0.

Zodiac is a DNS protocol analyzation and exploitation program. Zodiac project is a robust tool to explore the DNS protocol.
Internally it contains advanced DNS routines for DNS packet construction and disassembling and is the optimal tool if you just want to try something out without undergoing the hassle to rewrite DNS packet routines or packet filtering.
Main features:
- sniffing on all kinds of configured devices (Ethernet, PPP, ...)
- capturing and decoding nearly all types of DNS packets, including packet decompression
- ncurses driven text based frontend with interactive commandline and multiple windows
- threaded design allow more flexibility when adding your own features
- clean code, commented and tested just fine, ready for you to extend :-)
- internal DNS packet filtering allows installation of pseudo DNS filters you can "select()" on
- a large set of DNS packet construction primitives
- DNS name server versioning using BIND version requests
- DNS local spoofing, answering DNS queries on your LAN before the remote NS
- DNS jizz spoofing, exploiting a weakness within old BIND versions
- DNS ID spoofing, exploiting a weakness within the DNS protocol itself
If you like to help out getting the Missing or Incomplete features into zodiac, you can mail us for any zodiac-internal question you might have, we are happy to help you out with any DNS/Zodiac question. The code is pretty easy to understand, if you code your own extensions please try to maintain the current readable style and comment your changes/code.
Zodiac has been developed and tested on the Linux 2.2.x platform. It should work on all platforms that do have POSIX Threads, the terminal library ncurses and the libpcap packet capture library installed. To run zodiac you need root access for obvious reasons. If you get zodiac compiled and working on another platform then Linux 2.2.x, please let us know, well mention it here.

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs.

Drivel retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features, including support for LiveJournal, Blogger, Movable Type, Advogato, and Atom journals. (Systems based off these are also supported, including WordPress and Drupal.)

The Auditor security collection is a Live-System based on KNOPPIX. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.
Independent of the hardware in use, the Auditor security collection offers a standardised working environment, so that the build-up of know-how and remote support is made easier. Even during the planning and development stages, our target was to achieve an excellent user-friendliness combined with an optimal toolset.
Professional open-source programs offer you a complete toolset to analyse your safety, byte for byte. In order to become quickly proficient within the Auditor security collection, the menu structure is supported by recognised phases of a security check. (Foot-printing, analysis, scanning, wireless, brute-forcing, cracking).
By this means, you instinctively find the right tool for the appropriate task. In addition to the approx. 300 tools, the Auditor security collection contains further background information regarding the standard configuration and passwords, as well as word lists from many different areas and languages with approx. 64 million entries.
Current productivity tools such as web browser, editors and graphic tools allow you to create or edit texts and pictures for reports, directly within the Auditor security platform. Many tools were adapted, newly developed or converted from other system platforms, in order to make as many current auditing tools available as possible on one CD-ROM.
Tools like Wellenreiter and Kismet were equipped with an automatic hardware identification, thus avoiding irritating and annoying configuration of the wireless cards.
Enhancements:
New & Updated tools:
- proxychains 1-8-1 (for example scanning over proxy more easy)
- yersinia-0.5.4
- kismet-logfile-viewer klv.pl and klc.pl
- ntp fingerprinting tool
- tftp bruteforce tool
- snmp fuzzer
- cisco torch 0.4b
- unicornscan 0.4.2
- packit
- sendip
- nasl 2.2.4
- tcpick
- cryptcat
- amap version 4.8
- tcpsplit
- Ethereal version 10.11
- ettercap-ng-0.72 and modified the etter.conf
- replaced tinysnmp with snmp tools
- vnc2swf /usr/X11R6/bin/recordwin and vnc2swf
- edit_vnc2swf.py
- edit_mp3.py
- wpa-supplicatiant 0.3.8
- hostapd-utils 0.3.7
- ssldump
- fragrouter
- Metasploit 2.4 including all known updates
- airsnarf, but no menu at moment
- fakeap to /opt/auditor but no menu entry at moment, need to write a shell script
- dsniff 2.4b1-10
- nessus plugins updated
- exploit tree updated
- Snort 2.3.2-5
- Bleeding-edge rules for snort
- New aircrack
- New airsnort
- Bet i forgot some to mention.
New & updated drivers:
- rt2400 linux drivers and utils (untested)
- rtl8180 driver (8180_26_private.ko and open8180.ko and /usr/local/bin/wlanup and /usr/local/bin/wlandown) (Untested)
- hostap drivers 0.3.7
- ipw2100 & ipw2200 incl firmware, incl monitor mode
- Prism54 with injection patch
- Linux-wlan-ng with injection patch
- Madwifi with injection patch
- ACX drivers are back on cd
Addons:
- Default password list has been updated
- Added some changes to the network stack using /etc/sysctl.conf, which will be called from knoppix-autoconfig script
- New background image
Some fixes i remember:
- Kernel completely rebuilded to provide full functionality
- Isolinux now accepts bootparameters again
- USB drivers are back to /dev/sda and booting from stick works fine
- grub files have been fixed
- fixed hostname /etc/hosts
- /cdrom/index.html pointed to the old forum fixed that
- Added cardctl eject, cardctl insert into switch-to-XY scripts
- Fixed the homebutton of the konquerror when clicked first time
- Fixed the menuentry for nessus