I have released a new version of Bauer-Puntu Linux due to it’s surprising popularity! For instance, just last month Bauer-Puntu 10.04 was downloaded over 6,000 times! That is 5,999 times more than I ever thought. Who knew that it would be so popular?

I think the popularity really stems from my Bauer-Power video where I show people how easy it is to reset or blank local administrator passwords using Bauer-Puntu and CHNTPW. I also did another video showing how easy it is to hack WEP keys using Grim Wepa and Bauer-Puntu. If you are wondering, yes both of those packages are in the new release!

I did something a little different with this version. I tried it in the past, but it was too hard to do before. This time I got things figured out. I built this distro using the Ubuntu Minimal CD, so I was able to keep a whole lot of bloat off the system. What does this mean? It means a faster running operating system than the standard Ubuntu distro, as well as a faster install time! Still though, even with using the Ubuntu Minimal CD, I wasn’t able to keep this thing under 1GB, so it still has to run on a DVD or at least a 2GB USB Thumb drive.

Speaking of USB Thumb drives, I decided not to make a USB image this time as too many people had problems with it last time. I think it is best to download the ISO and write it to USB.

Here is a short list of programs I included in this distro:

GParted - Disk Partitioner
PartImage - Disk Cloning
CHNTPW - Windows Password *****er
Wipe - Secure File Deletion
TestDisk - File Recovery
ClamTK - Antivirus
GrimWepa - GUI WEP/WPA *****er using Air*****-ng backend (Booya!)
Cairo Dock - Mac OSX like dock
VirtualBox - Free Virtualization Software
Adobe Flash
Java

I also added the following by request:

SET – Social Engineer Toolkit – Plus I bookmarked the tutorials in the browser ;-P
Metasploit Framework 3.5.0
CheckGmail
Ubuntu Tweak
Parcellite
Yarssr

Finally I installed Google Chrome as the default browser this time. Lately I have just found Firefox to be too resource intensive, and thought I would give Chrome another go. I’m sure there are some other apps that I put on there, but it’s escaping me at the moment. I guess you will just have to download it to see!