Linuxseekers

Certain tools  have been made easier for you  to setup, such as Kismet  tool

and the snort tool.  One of  the things that amazed me was  the abundance

relevant links to online resources  pertaining to the tools that you would use

in Backtrack 2.  Kudos to the Backtrack team !  They  really  put  in a  lot  of

effort for this new version.  Even  the  bookmarks  toolbar of konqueror and

firefox carry many links to the various online resources.

The installer is located at Kmenu->System.  You  can either  install Backtrack

as Live CD install, or  a  real install.  The Live CD  type  of  installation  only

require 700mb of space  while  the  real install would need 2700Mb of space.

It took 10 minutes to install 2700 MB  of Backtrack 2   to  the  80Gb ide hard

disk of my Dell notebook.  Fast indeed !  I  made a reboot after that.  It  took

only 40 seconds to boot from the harddisk  as  compared  to  80  seconds of

booting time from the Live CD.

Backtrack 2 also comes with a lot of applications  that  an ordinary  desktop

user would need.  It comes with Linux kernel version 2.6.20.  Other than the

usual kde applications,  Backtrack 2 is also bundled with  the  Firefox 1.5.0.7,

kopete, gaim, mplayer1.0,  skype and qtparted.

Backtrack was also capable of automounting my usbkey. The good  news is

that Backtrack 2 supports most centrino wifi adapter,  atheros  wifi  adapter

and also support the 'stubborn'  broadcom wifi chipset, as evidenced  by the

availability of the  drivers and firmwares  for the  wlan chipset  of  bcm43xx,

ipw2100, ipw2200, ipw3945, rt73, rt2561, etc. Ndiswrapper version 1.37 is

also available should you need to use the windows wlan driver.