Matriux:

Matriux is a live security operating system which consists of powerful and open source tools and free tools which can be used for various urposes like penetration testing, ethical hacking, cyber investigations, vulnerabitlity analysis, data retriveing and not only limited for this, can be used for other purposes.

It can also be used as a normal desktop systems.

With this matriux we can turn a normal system to a powerful penetration testing toolkit.

The open source tools can do the following ,

1.reconnaissance --which can gain information about an enemy or potential enemy

2.scanning

3.Debugger

4.Tracer

5.Fuzzer

It also includes general tools for multimedia and internet applications.

It can be used from a live environment like CD, DVD, USB Disk or it can also be installed directly in to hard disk in very few steps.

Finally i can say that it is much similar to Back track.