Kali Linux?

[dmdar]

Hi everyone- are you all familiar with Kali Linux? If not it is a version of Linux loaded with hundreds of hacking tools, totally free and available for download on the internet. I went to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) for my Micromasters in Information Security and they taught me how to use this, is it nice, very slick! If you download it and install it on a cheap laptop or use Virtualbox to run it and play around with it and get good with it that is your ticket into the information security field! I enjoy doing this, it is fun, like a puzzle. I set up my own private network with 4 cheap laptops on defense and my mini laptop on offense using a 16-port ethernet switch and I do that to practice my skills! You can get it on the Kali Linux website, here:
https://www.kali.org/
Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

 

[Wynona]

Hi everyone- are you all familiar with Kali Linux? If not it is a version of Linux loaded with hundreds of hacking tools, totally free and available for download on the internet. I went to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) for my Micromasters in Information Security and they taught me how to use this, is it nice, very slick! If you download it and install it on a cheap laptop or use Virtualbox to run it and play around with it and get good with it that is your ticket into the information security field! I enjoy doing this, it is fun, like a puzzle. I set up my own private network with 4 cheap laptops on defense and my mini laptop on offense using a 16-port ethernet switch and I do that to practice my skills! You can get it on the Kali Linux website, here:
Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution
Kali Linux | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

Years ago, I did a two year degree on computer technology and did a Linux class. I was no good at it but I honestly enjoyed learning about the operating system. We worked with Ubuntu Linux.

 

[dmdar]

There is also another version of Linux called Parrot and that is identical to Kali, they are interchangeable, that is free and available for download too.

 

[Rockerduck]

I took computer science and learned a little of each operating system. IBM had one called OS/2 and the early Dos. Apple was just getting started. Years later linux came out, which is basic os that had been out for a while before groups created Linux with more features. Microsoft came out with ver. 8 and outpaced everyone for business. Linux could not compete, and really barely competes now. XP was really the best for linking i multiple pc's together with a mainframe. Until hackers suddenly appeared. OK, now comes Ubuntu. You can take an older laptop and install it and have a decent laptop again.

 

[Chrysostomos]

Kali Linux is really for a very narrow group of specialists. I’d never recommend it as a daily driver for a regular home PC.

A few years ago I’d have pointed normal users straight to Linux Mint, but their Wayland support is still “experimental,” and honestly Wayland rendering feels noticeably smoother and snappier than X11 to me, plus it’s objectively more secure.

Ubuntu has become questionable too with the whole Snap dictatorship thing. It feels less like “Linux with packages” and more like “Snap packages running on top of Linux.”

So yeah, right now I genuinely don’t know what to recommend to regular people. Zorin OS is probably the safest bet if you want something polished and beginner-friendly.

For more advanced users, Arch is always worth trying, just be smart about AUR packages.

And then there’s CachyOS sitting at #1 on DistroWatch… I honestly don’t get the hype. It looks like yet another performance-optimized Arch spin, but the excitement around it feels a bit overblown to me.

 

[dmdar]

Hey if you want to learn how to use Kali Linux I found something that is just the ticket- it is a website called Udemy.com . This website has a video library of thousands of IT courses, if you are in IT and have an interest there is probably at least 1 course on there about that! Most courses are only $15! I think I am going to start taking internet courses on Kali and Kali programs, these skills are rare, I think I can get good with Kali using this website and companies will have to hire me! Link to the website is here:

www.udemy.com