The BackTrack Team is proud to announce the public release of BackTrack 4 R1. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we believe this version is by far the best version released to date. With a shiny new 2.6.34 kernel, there are many significant improvements, such as expanded hardware support, and improved desktop responsiveness.Tools have been updated systemwide, and a full Fluxbox desktop environment has been added. A walk-around for the rt28xx driver has been implemented (for all you AWUS050NH owners).
The VMWare version has complete integration with VMWare Tools, which provides a seamless interaction with BackTrack in a virtual environment.
We could go on for pages on saying how great the new version is, but we’ll cut to the chase, and give you the run down:
* Kernel 2.6.35.8 – *Much* improved mac80211 stack.
* USB 3.0 support.
* New wireless cards supported.
* All wireless Injection patches applied, maximum support for wireless attacks.
* Even *faster* desktop environment.
* Revamped Fluxbox environment for the KDE challenged.
* Metasploit rebuilt from scratch, MySQL db_drivers working out of the box.
* Updated old packages, added new ones, and removed obsolete ones.
* New BackTrack Wiki with better documentation and support.
* Our most professional, tested and streamlined release ever.
Based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS. Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant wireless injection patches. Fully open source and GPL compliant. Head down to our downloads page to get your copy now!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank several key individuals who have helped make this release possible:
Offensive-Security who have played a major role in development and funding of our project.
Devon Kearns – A new member in our BackTrack team who single-handedly covered more packages than the whole team put together. At some stage we considered renaming the release to “dookie-track”.
Shadz – Master of the dragon and creator of the promo movie.
Digip – Master of our website and dang good artist
Elwood – For getting an awesome forensics environment up. Thanks!
Mister_X – For going through our wireless setup and making sure everything was sparkling.
Bolexxx – our torrent and download master. Your download is due to him.