Seems a decent educational tool too.. run in a virtual box and let your students go all out overflowing buffers and seeing the concepts in action. It comes with easy-to-follow guides.

OK for learning about what has been solved; kind of hacking-101. BUt the exploits involved have all been fixed in the products in that distro. What to use for the advanced class?

Refer to popular wargames. You could start here: http://www.smashthestack.org

i have it on my VM, can someone point me to where these guides are? KDE confuses me :). i will RTFM, I just need to find it first. thanks.

/dvl ;)

an actual distribution

It looks like a honeypot on steroids!