1. Athena OS

Athena is a project intended to build a new concept of pentesting OS. The name of the project comes from Athena, the Ancient Goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare.

The purpose of Athena project arises to offer a different experience than the most used pentesting distributions. These distros are mainly based on Debian, and they rely mainly on Debian or GitHub repositories for retrieving security tools that don't store all security tools and are hard to maintain. Furthermore, these OSes come already with a big amount of tools and services of which a good percentage is never used by the average of users, and it becomes a space waste and could cause performance degradation.

Athena is designed from scratch, so already during the development phase useless modules and services have been excluded in order to improve performance and resource consumption. Furthermore, this design approach allowed to review in detailed manner each single package and component to include inside the distribution. It led the OS to build a user-friendly environment, despite based on Arch Linux.

The heritage of Arch Linux impacts positively Athena OS with respect to other pentesting Debian-based OSes:

• Better performance: pacman is faster than apt
• Focused: Athena can be developed and maintained down to the smallest detail
• Much more security tools: Athena can rely on BlackArch repository, that contains much more security tools than Debian repositories
• Freedom: during the installation, you can choose to build your Athena with any resource or service you need.
• Documentation: Arch Linux is very well documented on Internet for any need

Athena's environment is based on GNOME Wayland that provide exciting features the user can enjoy!