Pentoo is a security-oriented, live GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo. In addition to the Gentoo base, it provides a set of tools and customized Kernel to make the security assessment and penetration testing easier.

The Pentoo tools & packages are provided through the Pentoo overlay(ebuild repositories). Pentoo is basically Gentoo with the Pentoo overlay. In Gentoo, you can use the layman - ebuild repository management tool to install packages from Pentoo overlay.

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Status	Active
Home Page	https://www.pentoo.ch
Page Hit Rank (rank/views)	80(2 hits per month)
Base distributions	Gentoo Linux
Desktop Envrionments	Xfce