Just when I was beginning to believe that Chromium’s source was somehow (purposely?) crippled to prevent its compilation on Linux, the Chromium dev blog has announced developer only binaries for Debian/Ubuntu compatible x86 and x64 systems. The only problem? Read this quote from the post:
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X [wtf is Mac?] and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.
So yeah… don’t download it.
Anyway, here’s some decidedly unscientific benchmarks for performance comparison. I ran Peacekeeper on Firefox 3.0.10 x86_64 on my Mint 6 install (what’s the holdup with 7 guys?), Firefox 3.0.10 on Vista x64, and IE8 64bit on Vista 64.
Looks pretty good to me, though I quickly uninstalled it afterward. I just don’t get why ALL the privacy features were disabled on the Linux build…
What could make BackTrack better? How about making it Debian based with a repository chock full of security tool goodness? Maybe even use Ubuntu’s repos for regular system updates? Well that’s just what the team at Remote Exploit have done with the fourth incarnation of their infamous live pentesting distribution:
Now based on Debian core packages and utilizing the Ubuntu software repositories, BackTrack 4 can be upgraded in case of update. When syncing with our BackTrack repositories, you will regularly get security tool updates soon after they are released.
New Features
- Kernel 2.6.28.1 with better hardware support.
- Native support for Pico e12 and e16 cards.
- Support for PXE Boot
- SAINTexploit
- MALTEGO
- Custom rtl8187 patches
- Broader wireless injection support
- Unicornscan
- RFID support
- Pyrit CUDA
- Other new and updated tools
Screenshots
BT4 is available as a DVD ISO [854MB] or VMware Image [1GB]
Download
Hint: Use a download manager or something with resume. Their mirrors are getting hit pretty hard as you can imagine.
