Just wanted to make you all aware, if you already weren't, that there is a new Pentoo release out.  Looks really good and I hope to play around with it a little more.

http://pentoo.ch/download

It is, like you said, the first release in a LONG time.  On their main page, they discuss that a little more in depth.  I'm alway happy though to see an old distro brought back to life.   

It surely didn't used to... perhaps this new version will be fairly decent. I did catch something on the main page though...


So maybe once Chris is around, he can give us some info about it

Thanks for the info, haven't heard of it before either. Though I appreciate it to have such distros available, I still prefer to use my own setup and configurations. Although BackTrack and others offer a good deal of tools and other useful stuff, I think that they have often more than actually needed - or miss some things. Maybe it's just because I am not too familiar with BackTrack (and others).
One of the big advantages using already existing security distros is that you don't need to spend much time on putting everything together though.