Many Linux enthusiasts know well distributed albaktrak, which underwent some changes and was renamed "Calle Linux." as you know, this distribution based on Debian and focus on providing specific tools for cyber security professionals. currently, this distribution is one of the most popular distributions for this kind of tasks, but is by no means the only in this area but there are other equally important disseminated about them.
Who like Arch Linux based distributions will be happy to learn other distro which evolved significantly named blackarch.
Blackarch is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and enjoy more than 1106 tool hack protection, encryption, and more. One of the warehouses to the tools you'll find in Linux, thanks mainly to the community this distribution, new tools are additions in the special page on the popular website githb, so it's not surprising that they got to such a large number.
Interesting that you can install this distro from scratch using live usb or just add a repository to the Arch, of blackarch has all the tools without the need for installation of PCLinuxOS. If you install from scratch you will have the option to choose various platforms support by this distribution including: openbox, Fluxbox wm, Awesome or spetrwm.
If you want to add a repository to the Arch Linux simply follow the steps and execute the following commands as Root. (Link to official guide here)
$ wget -q http://blackarch.org/keyring/blackarch-keyring.pkg.tar.xz{,.sig}
$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv 4345771566D76038C7FEB43863EC0ADBEA87E4E3
$ gpg --keyserver-o no-auto-key-retrieve --with-f blackarch-keyring.pkg.tar.xz.sig
$ pacman-key --init
$ rm blackarch-keyring.pkg.tar.xz.sig
$ pacman --noc -U blackarch-keyring.pkg.tar.xz
Add the following lines to/etc/pacman.conf archive, change "mirror_site" to whatever mirror you want here
[blackarch]
Server = mirror_site/$repo/os/$arch
Link to official website, you'll find there all the steps described there.
PCLinuxOS is very light, as well as all the tools have been tested by the watchdog group distribution as statements. course is more complicated than Linux bakali, but of the best distributions for penetration testing. Experience fun:)
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