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we expect a release in a couple of months at least

As BackTrack 5 development rolls on full steam ahead, we've been getting numerous questions about the future release. We thought we'de publish a blog post with general information about BT5 for the impatient. The codename of this release will be "revolution", for a bunch of reasons.

BackTrack 5 will be based on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04 LTS), and will (finally) support both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. We will be officially supporting KDE 4, Gnome and Fluxbox while providing users streamlined ISO downloads of each Desktop Environment (DE). Tool integration from our repositories will be seamless with all our supported DE's, including the specific DE menu structure.

Perhaps most importantly BackTrack 5 "revolution" will be our first release to include full source code in it's repositories. This is a big thing for us, as it officially joins us to the open-source community and clears up any licensing issues which were present in BackTrack 4. The absence of source code availability in BT4 was mainly due to lack of resources when we initially structured the BT4 development environment. Armed with our support from Offensive Security, we have built a *proper* development environment, which allows us to do awesome things.

Our tool list has completely been revamped and refreshed. Each tool's functionality was assessed and decided upon before inclusion to BT5. Obviously, we are constantly staying up to date with interesting new tools and are adding them to our repositories when appropriate. In addition, our menu structure has been much optimised - streamlined with both the PTES and OSSTMM standards. This will make finding and using the right tools much easier.


We are finally able to upadte our roadmap and pin down a date for the release - The date for the official release is May 10, 2011.

Stay tuned for more.

Besides...  Dunno about ya'll, but 90% of the tools I use on BT are 'command-line' anyway!  Desktops are nice sometimes, I guess... ;-p

Not only icky, but covered in cooties as well  8)

And the worse part will be that everyone will try to download it at the same time. It will be slow... :P

Its looking good. Do most people use BT within a VM of some sort ?

I cant stand Unity either!

Just got word it's due for release in five days wooot

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-5-release-in-5-days/

Someone doesn't want a BackTrack 5 release tomorrow. DOS on our backtrack-linux.org web server. Whoever it is, please stop.

DOS Mitigation by polite request. Looks like it worked. See you all tomorrow!

Interesting, posted by Muts the day before the release on @backtracklinux:


And then:

I am sure this isn't a DoS, it's just me and a bunch of guys hitting "refresh" to be the first getting the new release!  ;D

Figures, it would release after I left for work. Can't get it at work. But that just means there should be more seeds for me later tonight. :)

looking forward to it, I might need to use it in the morning to break log into my company laptop, to do my work.

*Edit:
yes I'm kidding about breaking into the laptop.

Ok, I have installed Backtrack 5 Gnome 64 bit yesterday along with VMWare Workstation, Nessus and some other little tools. So far, I have nothing to complain about. It will become my main OS.

But I miss the little drop-down that used to be in the lower panel in Backtrack 4. I used it a lot for quickly typing commands such as "shutdown -h 0", "reboot", etc. Do you guys know how to put it back? I don't even know how it's called...  :-[

But I miss the little drop-down that used to be in the lower panel in Backtrack 4. I used it a lot for quickly typing commands such as "shutdown -h 0", "reboot", etc. Do you guys know how to put it back? I don't even know how it's called...  :-[

Another thing, did someone installed both Firefox 4 and Firefox 3.6?

The default Firefox 4 doesn't support some interesting plugins yet...

I found this link for Windows: http://superuser.com/questions/160986/install-firefox-4-beta-alongside-firefox-3-6

This for Macs: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-run-firefox-4-and-3-simultaneously-in-mac-os-x-with-multiple-firefox-profiles-2011-3

It is probably feasible, based on this post: http://www.johannes-eva.net/how-to-install-firefox-on-ubuntu-linux

I just want to know if someone was able to do it in Backtrack 5.

Thanks

Anyone else tried to get gdm to start automatically under the gnome version? It seems to be disabled somewhere that's less than obvious (to me anyway)  :-[

Can anyone help me with screen res problem? I am using KDE in vmware when it first boots I get res 800x600 However when I go full screen it looks crap so I change the res to 1200x900 and it looks perfect but as soon as I reboot it reverts back to 800x600 and I have to go thought the process again.

This is what I did on my system (might be worth taking a snapshot before):

One problem I have is when using VM ware if I set it to full screen the menu bar does not re size I have to do it by hand what is a bit of a pain.

That's the "Run Command" applet in KDE. For KDE, If you right click on the panel and then select "add applet to panel" and then search by scrolling down to the "run command" applet, then select "add to panel".
For Gnome it's almost the same, right click on the panel and then select "add to panel" and then select "run application", it's not exactly the same as KDE (with a text box) but provides the same finctionality.

I don't get the "add applet to panel" with 32-bit KDE installation. Therea re only widgets to add and there is no run command widget among them. Any ideas?