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What Makes Blackhat Different

A Quick and Dirty Features Listing.

Blackhat is an attempt to create a solid, well-rounded GNU/Linux distro from scratch. Along the way, a few goals were set in place for the final product, including:

  • GRsecurity-enabled Linux kernel 2.6.20.7
  • PAX and Stack-Smashing Protection (SSP)
  • Complete loop-AES filesystem encryption
  • Slackware-like package management via Pkg
  • other things i can't remember right now. :-)

Obviously, Blackhat is a long way off from the mainstream linux distros in terms of sheer amount of software and manpower, but it still works to provide a basic, end-to-end GNU/Linux solution. The core software provided on a Blackhat system is as follows:

  • Linux 2.6.20.7 w/ GRsecurity
  • Glibc 2.5 w/ blowfish crypt()
  • GCC 4.1.2 (C,C++,ObjC,Java,Fortran)
  • Binutils 2.17