But saying that, these days, Kali Linux is not so much a distro as a family of them. We got the latest kernel 6.1 and Xfce 4.18.1. Similarly to the Debian-based siduction, it's a rolling-release distro. The app-launcher menu is carefully sorted and categorized to help you find your way through the many dozens of bundled tools. Even if you're just a hacker-wannabe, you could do a lot worse, and other distros could learn from the attention to detail here.

It has handy options such as configuring a separate /home partition in the installer, and when we installed it in VirtualBox, it automatically configured the graphics driver, so the desktop resized along with the window and so on. By default, you get the niftiest configuration of Xfce that we've seen since we looked at Zinc last year, complete with an immaculately catalogued app menu. As a desktop distro, though, it looks pretty good.

A new version of APT is coming to Debian 12Īs such, this vulture is lamentably lacking in competence to judge Kali for the purposes for which it's intended.

openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support.

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop.

After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you.

Frankly, the Reg FOSS desk is not an élite hacker and has never worked as a pen-tester – although he has warned some large companies about holes in their network security before now. It has a bewildering variety of tools, and when installing, you can choose whether you want them all built in, or just a core set. Kali rates highly on Distrowatch – it's currently at number 18, pop-pickers – which we ascribe mainly to its appearances on TV show Mr Robot and the consequent perception that this is a cool tool for élite hackers penetration testers and other security professionals.įor the type of people it targets, it's a handy time-saver. The default Xfce desktop of Kali Linux 2023.1 is neatly customised, albeit a little shinier than more business-focused distros

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