History
BackTrack merupakan hasil merger dari dua operating system yang memiliki fokus Penetration Testing Distributed Tools yaitu
WHAX: Slax-based Linux distribution yang di develop oleh Mati Aharoni, seorang konsultan security asal Israel. Pada versi sebelumnya WHAX dikenal sebagai Whoppix yang berbasis Knoppix.
Auditor Security Collection: a Live CD berbasis Knoppix yang di develop oleh Max Moser terdiri dari 300 tools penetration testing.
Release Versions
Date | Release |
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February 5, 2006 | BackTrack v.1.0 Beta |
May 26, 2006 | First release of Backtrack v.1.0 |
March 6, 2007 | BackTrack 2 final released |
June 19, 2008 | BackTrack 3 final released. |
January 9, 2010 | BackTrack 4 final release. (Linux kernel 2.6.30.9). |
May 8, 2010 | BackTrack 4 R1 release. |
November 22, 2010 | BackTrack 4 R2 release. |
May 10, 2011 | BackTrack 5 release (Linux kernel 2.6.38). |
August 18, 2011 | BackTrack 5 R1 release (Linux kernel 2.6.39.4). |
March 1, 2012 | BackTrack 5 R2 release (Linux kernel 3.2.6[1]). |
August 13, 2012 | BackTrack 5 R3 release[2]. |
March 13, 2013 | Kali 1.0 release[3] |