Open Source Linux Bootable USB Tools

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.

Updated 2026/01/24: Turn your PC into the ultimate shortwave radio. Skywave Linux is an X86, 64 bit live environment configured for accessing internet accessible software defined radio receivers. With this operating system, you may tune in popular stations or amateur radio, aeronautical, maritime, or other signals received at remote internet servers around the world. For a live map of the best KiwiSDR and WebSDR servers and a nice "click to tune" interface, Use the installed SDR-Map utility to find radio servers and listen from interesting places. Also, I have set up a self-updating SDR Map at https://rx.skywavelinux.com. An internet radio streamer application is also included for popular studio streams. Bring it up with keys [Super] + [S]. SDR software is configured to operate with popular plug-in devices, such as the RTL-SDR dongles, Airspy, and, HackRF radios. Skywave Linux is built on Debian Sid. It is primarily a live environment, but can be fully installed.

radiOS is a ham radio-centric, customized version of Arch Linux. Arch is generally recommended to experienced Linux users but radiOS should help you to get to know one of the most versatile and fun Linux distributions around. Not to mention use your radio without having to compile a bunch of programs yourself. radiOS comes with tools for use with amateur radio, especially SOTA, POTA, and GNU Radio Companion with HackRF Software Defined Radio. If it doesn't work as expected, or you would like to request additional functionality, please let me know. -This ISO is a live image but all the tools to install Arch Linux are included. -Right click anywhere for a menu. Connect to wifi via Network Manager in the System Utilities sub-menu. -As of 01JUNE2024 all packages have been updated, some have been removed due to difficulty in maintaining non-standard package dependencies, some useful links were added to Firefox, as well as a sample GRC for an SDR FM receiver.