Athena-OS/athena v22.11.04

Athena OS "Nike" beta

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athena-2022.11.04-x86_64.iso

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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

  

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

Issues

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!