2LINUX AS A FORENSIC ACQUISITION PLATFORM
This chapter describes Linux as a platform for performing digital forensic acquisition and discusses its various advantages and drawbacks. I also examine the acceptance of Linux and open source software within the digital forensics community, and the final section provides an overview of the relevant Linux fundamentals you’ll need to understand subsequent sections of this book.
The examples shown in this book primarily use Ubuntu Linux Server version 16.04 LTS (supported until April 2021) with the Bourne Again shell (Bash), version 4.3.x. The examples should also work on other Linux distributions and other ...
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