Phlak

[R0n1n]

Has anyone tried out PHLAK?

For those of you who haven`t its a distro similar to Knoppix-std in that its boots (and runs) off a CD and comes loaded with a bunh of security tools. In initial tests it seems ok, although it seems to have a few issues with wireless and is not detecting an Orinoco Gold card (unlike Knoppix STD which does this just fine). Still, it may be a useful tool for anyone out there doing testing, it also comes with a large amount of security documentation.

Check it out at www.phlak.org

[Gulducat]

I haven't tried Phlak, but I recently found LAS , which sounds similar. I have only been trying it out for a few days, but I like what I see so far. It is also a live distro and has over 200 tools built in. The link to the site is http://www.localareasecurity.com/ .

[Relyt]

haven't tried it yet, however I like the concept of a live version so I'm downloading it right now. Sounds good so far and it has quite the tool bag with it. I'll let you know when I get it up and running. Thanks for the link.

[MemorY]

Phlak is old new on here I've tried it out myself, and i like to play with it when i have nothin better to do.

[Spyrus]

I too have played around with phlak, its a fun lil distro to mess around with. if you get a chance boot up off it and play around, I got a kick out of its boot =sneaky boots into a windows xp look alike with all the utilities so you can fool around semi secretively. all and all its a neat small lil distro and a great utility for ppl who wanna use a nix enviroment to test hardware functionality in the tech world... saves you time from loading an os when you can just boot off it

[Raion]

Coincidently, I just downloaded phlak last night and saw this post today :P haven't really tried it out at all because I burned it before work and just tested if it works and then shut down so couldn't really do anything and now im too lazy to boot it up :P but i have one question about it, since it boots off the CD how does it store files you save on it? on windows (or whatever other OS is installed).

[Gulducat]

Info Tech Geek,
The link I posted was to a different distro besides phlak. Localareasecurity is completely separate from phlak. I have worked with LAS, but not with phlak and was just throwing in my $0.02.

[deathmetal]

I agree with MemorY. Phlak is a fun OS to play with. I don't use it on my computer, but I've played with it before in a class I share with MemorY.

[cgkanchi]

Since it boots off the CD how does it store files you save on it? on windows (or whatever other OS is installed).

It does this by making something called a RAMDisk. Basically, a RAMDisk is just a portion of your RAM being treated as a hard disk.

Cheers,
cgkanchi

[ruffasdagut]

Hey I have been trying to phlax to work on my dell 5150, but I cant get the screen to show up right. Has anyone gotten it to work on a laptop? Everything else seems to work great, except gui.

Thanks