Cerberix Linux is a security-focused Arch-based distribution designed as a desktop-ready daily driver rather than a specialist live toolkit.
It ships as an x86_64 ISO with support for UEFI and BIOS systems, combines a rolling Arch base with XFCE, and aims to provide hardened defaults, privacy tools, and practical administration utilities from the first boot.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a preconfigured security stack including nftables, ufw, fail2ban, AppArmor, rkhunter, lynis, arch-audit, and AIDE.
- Ships with XFCE, LightDM, Plank dock, Tokyo Night Moon theming, and a tuned desktop environment.
- Includes privacy and VPN tools such as Tor, Tor Browser Launcher, WireGuard, OpenVPN, OpenConnect, and proxychains-ng.
- Offers audit and offensive security utilities including hydra, hashcat, nikto, radare2, and sqlmap.
- Uses fish as the default shell with Tide prompt, Fisher, zoxide, and fzf.fish preinstalled.
- Includes Cerberix Shield for tray-based security status monitoring and Cerberix Connect for optional firewall appliance dashboard visibility.
- Provides a single-command installer via sudo cerberix-install.
- Publishes GPG-signed releases with checksum files for verification.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | XFCE |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Pacman |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | cerberix.org |
| Developer: | Cerberix |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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