The latest version of this great distro can be downloaded from Softpedia

Jul 22, 2013 13:42 GMT  ·  By

DEFT, a Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3.x and the DART (Digital Advanced Response Toolkit) with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools, is now at version 8.

DEFT stands for Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit and it's based on Lubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).

The distribution also uses Linux kernel 3.5.0-30, features a version for the 64-bit architecture, comes with various tools such as Sleuthkit 4 and Autopsy 2 – Ready for Autopsy, and gets a better and improved Digital Forensics Framework

“Ladies & Gentleman, first of all thank you for your precious suggestions/feedback on DEFT 8 beta! Here we are! :) We did our best to turn the DEFT 8 beta into a stable one,” reads the announcement.

More details about this release are available in the official changelog.

Download DEFT Linux 8 right now from Softpedia.