Wifislax 4.6 review.docxVIP

Wifislax 4.6 reviewin /category/reviews/reviews, /category/wifislax/wifislax / on August 8, 2013 at 4:01 am //2013/08/08/wifislax-4-6-review//2013/08/08/wifislax-4-6-review/Wifislax is a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed for wireless hacking and forensics. It’s not on the list of /2013/07/27/pentesting-digital-forensics-and-hacking-distributions/Pentesting, digital forensics, and hacking distributions that I published last week, but with this article, it just got added.Wifislack 4.6, the latest stable edition, was released on July 31 (2013). This is a Spanish distribution that’s made available for download as an installable 32-bit ISO image. Shown below is the boot menu. By default, the boot options are in Spanish, which is not surprising, considering that the developers are from Spain.Past the first boot menu, there are options to boot into a KDE or Xfce Live desktop. And there are Persistent options for both desktop environments. Attempting to boot into either Persistent option always failed, for reasons that I could not decipher. And the fact that there is a localization issue didn’t help matters.This is the graphical installer, The localization issue is obvious. Clicking “Siguiente” begins the installation process.A problem with the installer is that there is no automatic disk partitioning mode. So the target hard disk drive (HDD) has to be partitioned using GParted, which is not even integrated into the installer.The other problem with the installation process of Wifislax is that the boot loader installation step is not integrated into the installer itself. So that GRUB, the boot loader, has to be installed using another application that, like the installer, has to be launched from the menu. This screen shot shows the entries for the installer and GRUB installer in the menu.But I was not aware of that little fact about the steps involved in the installation of Wifislax before I made my first attempt. So that when the installer’s progress bar remained