Nasir's Blog

It is been a awhile since I wrote something technical. At some point I wanted to build Linux distribution from scratch. After a short research I found Linux From Scratch project. I learned a lot from it.

I’m now more involved with embedded development and I wanted to do the same, but for embedded environment. My idea is to use just Linux Kernel, BusyBox and initramfs. Turns out I’m not the only one who wanted to do that. There is tons of information about that. The one I found where a bit outdated, as this one will be too, in fairly short time. I want to use the latest stable Linux Kernel and BusyBox. I spend almost five hours, spread on couple days to get it to work. Linux Kernel 2.6.27.4 and BusyBox 1.12.1 is what I used.
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This semester I am going to give lecture about computer security. The first topic is about Wireless security. That is way I started a little research to refresh my memory. I went to Top 100 Network Security Tools and of course aircrack-ng is still one of the best, but there I found something interesting. It is a live-CD Linux distribution focused on hacking, penetration test called BackTrack.

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