Debian 9 GNU/Linux release is supposed to ship with many digital forensics tools and their dependencies. Spotted by Softpedia’s Marius Nestor, the announcement was made by Debian developer Michael ‘mika’ Prokop.
But, before going ahead and reading more about digital forensics tools in Debian 9, don’t forget to take a look at our most-visited Linux distro lists:
- Best Linux Distro For Beginners
- Best Linux Distro For Gamers
- Best Lightweight Linux Distros
- Overall Best Linux Distributions
- Best Linux distros for kids
- Best Operating Systems For Ethical Hacking
Coming back to the upcoming Debian 9, on his blog, Prokop wrote: “Debian/stretch AKA Debian 9.0 will include a bunch of packages for people interested in digital forensics.”
He added that the packages will be maintained by the Debian Forensics team. They’ll also be accompanied by their libraries.
Some of the digital forensics tools shipping with Debian 9 are as follows:
- bruteforce-salted-openssl
- cewl
- dislocker
- pompem
- unhide.rb
The complete list of tools and libraries can be found here.
As said above, Debian 9 release date is June 17, 2017. So, save the date and get ready to try out the latest and most stable release of this open source Linux distro.
Did you find this Debian 9 news interesting? Don’t forget to share your views.
