BackBox

BackBox is a Linux distribution dedicated for penetration testing and security assessments. BackBox is based on Xubuntu, which is an alternate version of Ubuntu but with XFCE desktop.

History and development process
BackBox focuses on minimal usage of system resources without compromising the functionality. From the initial build on-wards BackBox is maintaining a repository at Launchpad.

The first public release, BackBox Linux 1 RC, was in September 2010.

Types of distributions
BackBox comes in two flavors i386(x86) and amd64(x86-64) available as ISO images.