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@D3vil0p3r D3vil0p3r released this 15 Nov 21:26
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New Minimal Arch Linux based Distribution for Pentesting.

Athena OS, code name "Nike" (ancient Greek: "Victory"), comes with several important fixes and new implementations, and carries the new GNOME 43!

Athena Nike will provide:

  • Hacking roles: you can choose among several roles for your hacking activity

  • Hacking environment variable viewer: you can easily list the set of environment variables you need for your activity

  • Autotiling feature: you can now tile windows by Autotiling icon on the top-right of the screen

  • osert tool: Markdown Templates for Offensive Security exam reports. Just get it by pacman!

  • BASH and ZSH as shells to be chosen

  • GRUB Athena background

  • A lot of security resources as bookmarks in Firefox ESR

  • Hack-Tools extension in Firefox ESR

  • CTRL+ALT+T for invoking the terminal, SUPER+D for minimizing all the windows, SUPER+E for opening the Home folder

  • Snapper for creating snapshots of your system for recovering purpose

  • Octopi as graphical package manager

  • Suppression of snap-pac messages on terminal

  • Implemented a threshold of 10 snapshots for GRUB

  • Disabling close window confirmation in Kitty

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Furthermore, heavy changes come at system level for improving the performance of the system:

  • Migration to GNOME 43
  • Firefox run on RAM for speeding up the performance
  • Parallel code compilation
  • Building from files in RAM
  • OOM handling
  • Process priority managers
    • Ananicy
    • IRQBalance
  • Improved kernel characteristics:
    • Dirty Ratio
    • Dirty Background Ratio
    • OOM Dump Tasks
    • OOM Kill Allocating Task
    • Overcommit Memory
    • Swappiness
    • VFS Cache Pressure
    • CFS zen tweaks for non-zen kernels
  • Automated microcode implementation
  • Implemented linux-zen kernel in Live Environment
  • ISO labeling compliant to ISO-9660 and FAT32 requirements

Issues

  • VSCode does not show close, maximize and minimize buttons due to some bug related to Electron19. Bug already reported: microsoft/vscode#161586

If you detect any issues during your experience, please open an issue on athena-iso GitHub repository.

Thank you for downloading Athena. Study, Learn, Attack and Enjoy!

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