Ubuntu-Based BackBox Linux 5 Ethical Hacking Distro Debuts with Linux Kernel 4.8

The development team behind the Ubuntu-based BackBox Linux ethical hacking distribution designed for security evaluations and penetration testing tasks announced the release of BackBox Linux 5.

BackBox Linux 5 has been in development for too long, since even the release of BackBox Linux 4.7 in early December last year, but it's finally here, and it brings with it a significant number of improvements, up-to-date components, as well as several under-the-hood optimizations and tweaks.

"The BackBox Team proudly announces the major release of BackBox v5. It took long due to several development processes, but we worked hard and got through it," said the devs in the release announcement. "In this major release we made some structural changes, we removed outdated tools and added new ones."

Now powered by Linux kernel 4.8

Being based on the Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating s...