I was saying to a buddy of mine that, if I had the know-how and time, I would like to build a custrom distro that is setup specifically for hacking away at my network. Basically something I could run on a notebook that is hardened very well and comes standard with things like a solid portscanner, vulnerability assesor, password cracker, etc. Not a lot of frills though. It would be cool too if the kernel was trimmed down to only the necessities for such a system.

He said that he was pretty sure that something like this already existed but he couldn't remember the name. Personally I think he was just talking out of his ass.

Can anybody confirm this?