40 Linux Distros And Their Official Websites!

240 Linux Distros And Their Official Websites!

How many have you tried? Have a look

Linux is all about freedom, experiments and versatility! We all know about popular Linux distros like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat etc., but do you know that there are over 400 Linux distros! So if the adventurous geek inside you is still alive, EFYTimes brings a list of 240 active Linux distribution with their official websites for you to try your hands on! Have fun!

 

Absolute Linux	Official website
AbulEdu	Official website
AgiliaLinux	Official website
aLinux	Official website
Alpine Linux	Official website
ALT Linux	Official website
Antergos	Official website
antiX	Official website
aptosid	Official website
Arch Linux	Official website
ArchBang Linux	Official website
Archie	Official website
AriOS	Official website
ArtistX	Official website
AsteriskNOW	Official website
Asturix	Official website
AUSTRUMI	Official website
AV Linux	Official website
BackBox Linux	Official website
Berry Linux	Official website
BigLinux	Official website
Bio-Linux	Official website
blackPanther	Official website
BlankOn Linux	Official website
Bluewall GNULinux	Official website
Bluewhite64 Linux	Official website
Bodhi Linux	Official website
BOSS Linux	Official website
Bridge Linux	Official website
CAELinux	Official website
CAINE	Official website
Calculate Linux	Official website
Canaima	Official website
Càtix	Official website
CDlinux	Official website
CentOS	Official website
Chakra GNU/Linux	Official website
ClearOS	Official website
Clonezilla	Official website
ComFusion	Official website
CrunchBang Linux	Official website
CRUX	Official website
Damn Small Linux	Official website
Debian	Official website
DEFT Linux	Official website
Descent|OS	Official website
Devil-Linux	Official website
DigAnTel	Official website
DoudouLinux	Official website
DragonFly BSD	Official website
Dragora GNU/Linux	Official website
DreamStudio Unity	Official website
Easy Pease	Official website
Edubuntu	Official website
Ekaaty	Official website
Elastix	Official website
Elive	Official website
Emmabuntüs	Official website
Endian Firewall	Official website
Epidemic GNU/Linux	Official website
ExTiX	Official website
Fedora	Official website
Finnix	Official website
Foresight Linux	Official website
FreeBSD	Official website
FreeNAS	Official website
Frenzy	Official website
Frugalware Linux	Official website
Fusion Linux	Official website
GALPon MiniNo	Official website
GeeXboX	Official website
Gentoo	Official website
GhostBSD	Official website
gNewSense	Official website
GParted	Official website
Greenie Linux	Official website
Grml	Official website
Guadalinex	Official website
Hacao Linux	Official website
Hanthana Linux	Official website
Hybryde Linux	Official website
IPCop Firewall	Official website
IPFire	Official website
ISlack	Official website
Jibbed	Official website
Jolicloud	Official website
kademar	Official website
Kahel OS	Official website
Kali Linux	Official website
KANOTIX	Official website
Karoshi	Official website
Kiwi linux	Official website
Knoppix	Official website
Kubuntu Linux	Official website
Kwheezy	Official website
Kwort Linux	Official website
Leeenux Linux	Official website
Legacy OS	Official website
Liberté Linux	Official website
Lightweight Portable Security	Official website
LinEx	Official website
LinHES	Official website
Linpus Linux	Official website
Linux Deepin	Official website
Linux From Scratch	Official website
Linux Lite	Official website
Linux Mint	Official website
LinuxConsole	Official website
LliureX	Official website
Lubuntu	Official website
Lunar-Linux	Official website
LuninuX OS	Official website
LXLE	Official website
m0n0wall	Official website
Macpup	Official website
Mageia	Official website
MakuluLinux	Official website
Mandriva	Official website
Manjaro Linux	Official website
MidnightBSD	Official website
MINIX	Official website
Momonga Linux	Official website
Musix	Official website
Mythbuntu	Official website
NetBSD	Official website
Netrunner	Official website
NetSecL OS	Official website
Network Security Toolkit	Official website
NexentaStor	Official website
NuTyX	Official website
Ojuba	Official website
OLPC OS	Official website
OpenBSD	Official website
OpenELEC	Official website
OpenIndiana	Official website
openmamba GNU/Linux	Official website
OpenMediaVault	Official website
openSUSE	Official website
Openwall GNU*Linux	Official website
Ophcrack	Official website
Oracle Linux	Official website
Oracle Solaris	Official website
OS4 OpenLinux	Official website
Overclockix	Official website
Parabola GNU/Linux	Official website
Pardus	Official website
Parsix	Official website
Parted Magic	Official website
PC-BSD	Official website
PCLinuxOS	Official website
Pear OS	Official website
Pentoo	Official website
Peppermint OS	Official website
pfSense	Official website
PHLAK	Official website
Pinguy OS	Official website
Plamo Linux	Official website
PLD Linux Distribution	Official website
Plop Linux	Official website
Point Linux	Official website
Porteus	Official website
Proxmox	Official website
Puppy Linux	Official website
PureOS	Official website
Qomo Linux	Official website
Qubes OS	Official website
Quirky	Official website
Raspbian	Official website
Rebellin Linux	Official website
Red Flag Linux	Official website
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Official website
Redo Backup & Recovery	Official website
Rocks Cluster	Official website
ROSA	Official website
Sabayon Linux	Official website
SalentOS	Official website
Saline OS	Official website
Salix OS	Official website
SchilliX	Official website
Scientific Linux	Official website
Semplice Linux	Official website
siduction	Official website
Simplicity Linux	Official website
Skolelinux	Official website
Slackel	Official website
Slackware	Official website
SLAX	Official website
SliTaz GNU/Linux	Official website
SME Server	Official website
Smoothwall	Official website
Snowlinux	Official website
SolydXK	Official website
Sophos	Official website
Source Mage GNULinux	Official website
SparkyLinux	Official website
Springdale Linux	Official website
Stella	Official website
Super OS	Official website
Superb Mini Server	Official website
SuperX	Official website
SUSE	Official website
Swift Linux	Official website
SystemRescueCD	Official website
T2 Linux	Official website
Tails	Official website
Thinstation	Official website
Tiny Core Linux	Official website
Toorox	Official website
Toutou Linux	Official website
Trisquel GNU/Linux	Official website
Tuquito	Official website
Turbolinux	Official website
TurnKey Linux	Official website
UberStudent	Official website
Ubuntu	Official website
Ubuntu Christian Edition	Official website
Ubuntu GNOME	Official website
Ubuntu Privacy Remix	Official website
Ubuntu Studio	Official website
UbuntuKylin	Official website
Ultimate Edition	Official website
Unity Linux	Official website
Univention Corporate Server	Official website
Untangle Gateway	Official website
Ututo	Official website
VectorLinux	Official website
VENENUX GNU/Linux	Official website
Vine Linux	Official website
Vinux	Official website
VortexBox	Official website
Voyager Live	Official website
Vyatta	Official website
wattOS	Official website
Webconverger	Official website
Wifislax	Official website
Window Maker Live	Official website
Xubuntu	Official website
YellowDog	Official website
ZevenOS	Official website
Zorin OS	Official website

Top 15 IT Certifications For 2014

IT skills have been useful to many. Whether it is to find employment or be your own computer engineer, a little bit of knowledge in different aspects of this industry will not go waste in today’s world. Nevertheless, gainful employment is what we are all looking for. So here are fifteen IT certifications that will help you in the competitive technology industry.

1. Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC): This certification deals with risk management in the IT industry. It is obtained from ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association).

2. CWNP Certified Wireless Security Professional: This is a wireless network security certification that has been quite popular for some time now. There is also the advanced Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE) certification that you can get. Both of this can add a lot to your market value.

3. GIAC Certified Forensics Analyst (GCFA): You can get this certification from the GIAC. The certification covers people who are trained in information security, incident response and computer forensics for Windows and Linux operating systems only.

4. GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA): This certification can increase your premium pay by 37.5 per cent and reports say that its demand will increase in the future. It is for individuals trained in intrusion detection systems and network traffic and log files analysis.

5. HP/Accredited Solutions Certification: This one offers a number of different certifications, including HP/Accredited Solutions Expert (ASE - all), HP/Master Accredited Solutions Expert (MASE - all), HP/Master Accredited Systems Engineer (Master ASE). The vendor for this one is ICS2, the official organisation that maintains and administers CISSP certifications.

6. Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA): Even though Microsoft has announced that the certification would be stopped post 31 December, its value is reportedly growing still.

7. Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (all): This elite certification from Microsoft is also being retired like the one above and from the same date. Again, the value for this is reportedly still growing.

8. Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA): This is a vendor neutral certification, which focuses on IT certification for the Open Group website. The premium pay of an employee reportedly increases by 16.7 per cent with this.

9. Open Group Master Architect: This is level two of the above certification and is vendor neutral like its predecessor. The company is reportedly planning to include more business and enterprise certifications for both of these soon.

10. Oracle Certified Expert MySQL 5.1 Cluster Database Administrator: Remember the MySQL Cluster Database Administrator (SCMCDBA) certification? This is the same one, and it is for IT professionals who are experts at designing, administrating, deploying, configuring and maintaining databases, which use the MySQL cluster technology. The certification comes from Oracle.

11. Oracle Certified Professional MySQL 5 Database Administrator: If you are an IT professional who has mastered every Oracle server related issue, then this is the certification for you.

12. Oracle Database Administrator Certified Master: This certification has reportedly been rising by 8.3 per cent, in terms of the demand and value, in the last 12 months. Get this one from Oracle.

13. PMI Risk Management Professional: This one is for capable risk management professionals. The vendor for this certification is PMI and they have been said to ensure that the professionals are trained in the best international practices.

14. Program Management Professional (PgMP): This is another certification from PMI and it is vendor-neutral. It has apparently been growing in terms of premium pay over the last year.

15. Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA): This is the highest level of certification that you can get from Red Hat. It includes everything from deployment to systems management in larger enterprise environments.

All these certifications have prerequisites that you can find quite easily on the respective organisations’ websites. Getting these allow an IT professional to put marketable points to their resumes, which can boost their market value considerably.

50 Free System And Network Admin Tools

As a system/network administrator, you have the task cut out for yourself. It is your job to avoid any attacks on your system, protect it against attacks that do happen and maintain the system in general. To do this, you would be using some tools and the work is done best when you use the best possible tools. Here's a handy list!

System and Network Analysis: As an administrator, it is your job to monitor the system and network that you are presiding over. Analysis is an important part of being in the know of what's happening and when a particular action is required. That is where system and network analysis tools come in handy.

1. NTFS Permissions Explorer

2. Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector

3. Whois

4. ShareEnum

5. PipeList

6. TcpView

7. The Dude

8. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

9. WireShark

10. Look@LAN

11. RogueScanner

12. Capsa Free Network Analyzer

13. SuperScan

14. Blast

15. UDPFlood

16. IPplan

17. NetStumbler

18. PingPlotter

19. SolarWinds Free Permissions Analyzer for AD

20. Angry IP Scanner

21. FreePortMonitor

22. WirelessNetView

23. BluetoothView

24. Vision

25. Attacker

26. Total Network Monitor

27. IIS Logfile Analyser

28. ntop

System testing and troubleshooting: What's the next logical step after analysis your network? Of course, testing whether your analysis was right or wrong. To put it more clearly, as a system or network admin, it is one of your jobs to perform tests on your domain. These are the tools that let you do that.

29. Pinkie

30. VMWare Player

31. Oracle VirtualBox

32. ADInsight

33. Process Monitor

34. SpiceWorks Network Troubleshooting

35. RAMMap

36. Autoruns

37. LogFusion

38. Microsoft Log Parser

39. AppCrashView

40. RootKitRevealer

System and network management: These are tools that allow you to manage the network or system. In a way, they comprise of various tools that help an IT professional to manage a bunch of tasks or certain specific tasks.

41. Bitcricket IP Subnet Calculator

42. EMCO Remote Installer Starter

43. ManagePC

44. Pandora FMS

45. SNARE Audit and EventLog Management

46. OCS Inventory

47. Zenoss Core – Enterprise IT Monitoring

48. Unipress Free Help Desk

49. SysAidIT Free Help Desk

50. Cyberx Password Generator Pro

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6 Best Books That Every Budding Hacker Must Read!

:  Everyone knows that a hacker by extension is always a programmer. What many don't know though is that there is a lot more to it. It's not just about knowing the language. A hacker is mainly defined by his curiosity to know what is otherwise not to be known. While these books that follow are on hacking, they have a lot of golden knowledge on the subject. As a hacker, it's something you can never pass up on.

1. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.

Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques actually work. To share the art and science of hacking in a way that is accessible to everyone, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition introduces the fundamentals of C programming from a hacker's perspective.

The included LiveCD provides a complete Linux programming and debugging environment-all without modifying your current operating system. Use it to follow along with the book's examples as you fill gaps in your knowledge and explore hacking techniques on your own. Get your hands dirty debugging code, overflowing buffers, hijacking network communications, bypassing protections, exploiting cryptographic weaknesses, and perhaps even inventing new exploits.

2. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy (Syngress Basics Series)

The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing serves as an introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test or perform an ethical hack. You learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern day hacking tools; which are required to complete a penetration test. Tool coverage will include, Backtrack Linux, Google, Whois, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat, Netbus, and more. A simple and clean explanation of how to utilize these tools will allow you to gain a solid understanding of each of the four phases and prepare them to take on more in-depth texts and topics. This book includes the use of a single example (pen test target) all the way through the book which allows you to clearly see how the tools and phases relate.

3. Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide

The author of this book David Kennedy is Chief Information Security Officer at Diebold Incorporated and creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET), Fast-Track, and other open source tools. Some see this book as a right of passage for anyone to be a hacker.

4. BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide

Written in Packt's Beginner's Guide format, you can easily grasp the concepts and understand the techniques to perform wireless attacks in your lab. Every new attack is described in the form of a lab exercise with rich illustrations of all the steps associated. You will practically implement various attacks as you go along. If you are an IT security professional or a security consultant who wants to get started with wireless testing with Backtrack, or just plain inquisitive about wireless security and hacking, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you have familiarity with Backtrack and basic wireless concepts.

5. CEH Certified Ethical Hacker All-in-One Exam Guide

Get complete coverage of all the objectives included on the EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker exam inside this comprehensive resource. Written by an IT security expert, this authoritative guide covers the vendor-neutral CEH exam in full detail. You'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the exam with ease, this definitive volume also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

6. CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-301 Study Guide

CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-301 Study Guide is an update to the top-selling SY0-201 guide, which helped thousands of readers pass the exam the first time they took it. The SY0-301 version covers every aspect of the SY0-301 exam, and includes the same elements readers raved about in the previous version.

Each of the eleven chapters presents topics in an easy to understand manner and includes real-world examples of security principles in action. The author uses many of the same analogies and explanations he's honed in the classroom that have helped hundreds of students master the Security+ content. You'll understand the important and relevant security topics for the Security+ exam, without being overloaded with unnecessary details. Additionally, each chapter includes a comprehensive review section to help you focus on what's important.

Over 450 realistic practice test questions with in-depth explanations will help you test your comprehension and readiness for the exam. The book includes a 100 question pre-test, a 100 question post-test, and practice test questions at the end of every chapter. Each practice test question includes a detailed explanation to help you understand the content and the reasoning behind the question. You'll be ready to take and pass the exam the first time you take it.

5 Cool Websites That You Can Make Use Of!

Want to build you own Flappy Bird game? Or maybe you want an alternative for Google Drive? Did you know there are websites that allow you to do both of these things and more? Here are five such websites that you didn't know about.

1. Files to Friends

Most email service providers will restrict the file size for attachments that you can send to friends. This website provides you with a way around the issue. You can either enjoy a paid account with a 5 GB data limit or a free account with a 1 GB data limit. The website gives you a download link, which you can then share with a friends. This link doesn't expire either.

2. Paste to Grid

This website allows you to create collages from pictures that you have on your computer. The user has to choose the grids and then put in pictures into the grid. The website then generates the collage by itself.

3. Tapiture

This is a website that can be used for buying your favourite items. From gadgets to travel items, accessories, beauty products, home accessories and anything else that you can think of. You indicate your interests and the website finds the items for you.

4. Flappy Generator

Remember Flappy Bird? The game may not be available anymore, but this website allows you to create your own version of Flappy. Neat isn't it?

5. Docs Quickly

This website allows you to create Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Google Docs quickly and from your Chrome bar only. It is especially suited to those who find the cloud services for documents to be tedious or difficult.

10 Cloud-Focused Skills Every IT Pro Must Know!

Figuratively, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $37.8 billion in 2010 to $121.1 billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 26.2 per cent from 2010 to 2015. Not only does it reduce business costs, but also makes applications accessible from any location: cloud computing is undoubtedly the future of computing (good news is, it's already here and kicking!). As such, IT professionals must have a technical know-how of all things 'cloudy' and must ensure that their skills are up to date.

Here are 10 Cloud-focused skills every IT pro must know:

1. Business and financial skills

Business (the act of making money) and technology don't always go hand in hand when it comes to the larger share of open source community. One might contend that there's always a price to pay, well not necessarily! However, in the case of cloud-based market, restraints, and opportunities IT professionals must have necessary business skills to meet challenges.

2. Technical skills

In the world of cloud computing, of course much of the IT resources can be stramlined thereby offloading an organisation's day-to-day system management, however, that doesn't take away the fact that technical skills are put on the back burner. There is always a need of technical assistance, for instance when developing a language for an application.

3. Enterprise architecture and business needs analysis

When it comes to service-oriented architecture it's always ideal for IT professionals to readily cross disciplines and multi-task efficiently.

4. Project management skills

Don't let the 'richness' of cloud computing befool you. It's very flexible, yes, but that doesn't mean it shall work on its own by magic! Over dependance on cloud and its advantages should not lead to missed deadlines and vague goals that at the end of the day compromise the very advantage of Cloud.

5. Contract and vendor negotiation skills

It's ideal that IT pros have some prior experience dealing with contract and vendor negotiations. They must be aware of where they are getting their hands and feet into. Service-level agreements are made and breached in seconds!

6. Security and compliance

A firm understanding of security protocols and the regulatory mandates is a must when it comes to IT professionals dealing with Cloud.

7. Data integration and analysis skills

While workinh with big data and making full use of it, IT professionals must assist data scientists in hooking up big data as also maintain a healthy enterprise resource planning.

8. Mobile app development and management

The future my friends is 'mobile' (mobile via cloud to be precise). IT professionals and the organisations they serve must have their basics right when it comes to providing mobile experience to customers via cloud. There must be ideas brewing up every now and then that focus on improving their services for which they must aggressively follow market trends and patterns.

9. Knowledge of open hybrid clouds

The future is also 'open'! It's high time IT professionals come to realise the importance of going open, building and extending their organisation's cloud computing infrastructure accordingly.

10. Understanding of OpenStack

In order to take full advantageof open source, IT pros must have a firm understanding of the technology required to make it so. OpenStack essentially is a merger of developers and cloud computing technologists that together deliver a number of cloud infrastructure components through their projects.

50 More Free Hacking Tools!

A couple of days ago we brought you an exhaustive list of 50 hacking tools that are available for free. Now, here are 50 more to take the tally to 100.

Vulnerability Scanners: These are programs that have been designed to asses a computer or network’s vulnerability to attacks. The functionality of these tools varies from one to the other, but they all present a detailed analysis of how vulnerable your system is.

1. Nessus

2. OpenVAS

3. Nipper

4. Secunia PSI

5. Retina

6. QualysGuard

7. Nexpose


Web Vulnerability Scanners: While vulnerability scanners are meant for your system, web vulnerability scanners assess the vulnerability of web applications. The identify the security vulnerabilities that your app may have through various tests.

1. Burp Suite

2. WebScarab

3. Websecurify

4. Nikto

5. w3af


Web Proxies: Proxies were originally created in order to add encapsulation to distributed systems. The client contacts a proxy server in order to request an item that exists on your server.

1. Paros

2. Fiddler

3. Ratproxy

4. sslstrip


Rootkit Detectors: This tool is a file and directory integrity checker. It verifies if a file is trustworthy and informs the user if found otherwise.

1. AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment)


Firewalls: You obviously know what a Firewall is. These monitor and control the traffic in your network, whether incoming or outgoing. They are essential security tools that are used by the most novice to the most advanced users.

1. Netfilter

2. PF: OpenBSD Packet Filter


Fuzzers: The concept of fuzzing is usually put to use in order to test the security vulnerabilities of computer systems or in the software that runs on them.

1. skipfish

2. Wfuzz

3. Wapiti

4. W3af


Forensics: This refers to tools that are used for computer forensic. They are used in order to find evidence that is existing in computer systems.

1. Sleuth Kit

2. Helix

3. Malteg0

4. Encase


Debuggers: These are tools that are used in order to write exploits, reverse engineer binary files and to analyse malware.

1. GDB

2. Immunity Debugger


Hacking Operating Systems: These are operating systems that have been designed specifically for hackers. These distros are preloaded with tools that a hacker needs etc.

1. Backtrack 5r3

2. Kali Linux

3. SELinux

4. Knoppix

5. BackBox Linux

6. Pentoo

7. Matriux Krypton

8. NodeZero

9. Blackbuntu

10. Samurai Web Testing Framework

11. WEAKERTH4N

12. CAINE (Computer Aided Investigative Environment)

13. Bugtraq

14. DEFT

15. Helix


Other Hacking Tools: There are also other miscellaneous hacking tools that are often used by hackers. They can’t be put into a particular category, but they are still quite useful.

1. Netcat

2. Traceroute

3. Ping.eu

4. Dig

5. cURL