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                    Welcome to GNU Brutalware Linux 1.1
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Tired of MS-DOS, Novell or Windows? Now the GNU Brutalware is here,
allowing you to turn any computer into powerful hacker's Linux workstation,
with only one DOS based PC and 3 floppies!

Brutalware is two-disks Linux distro with TCP/IP networking (currently
only bootp-based) and one supplementary floppy with tons of hacking utilities.
Great distribution for use in the school labs and internet cafe's.


Technical details
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Brutalware Linux 1.1 is libc5 based 2.0.36 Linux distribution.

Brutalware may be booted by LOADLIN from MS-DOS system, since many of
publicly accessible computers (which is the primary target of this
distribution) don't allow users to boot from floppy for security reasons.

(Brutalware may be also booted directly from floppy without requiring DOS,
but this is undocumented. If you want to boot directly, create a bootdisk
by transferring kernel image "images/direct_boot/disk1.img" to a 1.44 floppy.
Don't do it if you don't know how to do it.)


Brutalware Linux 1.1 consists of following floppies:

1. boot floppy
  MS-DOS floppy with kernel image and loadlin for booting from MS-DOS
     or
  floppy with kernel image used for direct booting (undocumented, see above)

2. ramdisk floppy
  Disk containing compressed image with very basic system.

3. supplementary floppy
  Ext2 floppy to be mounted at /usr, containing some usefull network
  software:
  * lynx
  * telnet client
  * ftp client
  * ssh1 client
  * nmap
  * sniffit
  * linsniffer
  * john the ripper
  * redirector
  * netcat
  * bindshell & shutils (scripts for bindshell upload and download)


Networking
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Basic setup of TCP/IP networking is currently possible only with BOOTP.
The purpose of Brutalware is _portability_ so it isn't possible to do
any fixed network setup. You can setup network manually where BOOTP server
is not available, but it's lot of fucking work after reboot it's all gone.
You should know how to do it though, I won't tell you.
I may include some scripts for easier manual setup in the next release though,
acctually I had them done, but it's gone with my old disks with BW 0.1 that
I lost somewhere.


Licensing Policy
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
license.txt for details.