Kali Linux 2.0 Released

https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/

by kriro • 11 years ago

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richm44• 11 years ago

Has anyone seen a list of what tools have been added in this release?

at-fates-hands• 11 years ago

Here you go: https://www.kali.org/releases/kali-linux-20-released/

They've added a ton of stuff as well as removed metasploit pro package due to Rapid7 asking them to remove it.

noobie2• 11 years ago

What is about Kali that sets it apart from other Linux distributions?

jonesetc• 11 years ago

It is a distro built specifically for pen testing.

noobie2• 11 years ago

What exactly do you mean by "built"? I mean if it's, like other users said, just a bundle of pre-installed tools, how does it differ from Ubuntu?

elros• 11 years ago

I'd guess its focus on penetration testing.

altharaz• 11 years ago

It's a Debian-based distribution, with a lot of preinstalled penetration-testing tools.

Deployed as a live USB, it becomes the Swiss Army knife of pentesters.

redwards510• 11 years ago

You login as root. You don't use sudo.

dr_zoidberg• 11 years ago

`sudo -i` sort of solves the lack of su in Ubuntu and derivatives.

sarciszewski• 11 years ago

It comes with the most popular tools for penetration testing.

Personally, I try to steer people away from it until they've learned how to do things the hard way (i.e. you have Python and Bash installed, write your own simple tools and hack this network) and then Kali is easy mode.

ryanlol3• 11 years ago

It is uniquely bloated.

kolev• 11 years ago

"Kali Linux is Now a Rolling Distribution" - finally!

Shank• 11 years ago

I seriously thought that was the goal when they changed names from Backtrack to Kail in the first place. Oh well, good that it's now one at least.

finnn2• 11 years ago

Their site is down. Can someone post the magnet link?

EDIT found the link on reddit: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:66fc47bf95d1aa5eca358f12c70af3ba5c7e8f9a&tr=udp://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce&tr=http://tracker.kali.org:6969/announce (torrent at http://images.kali.org/kali-linux-2.0-amd64.torrent)

timboslice• 11 years ago

Site is back up but cheers for the magnet!

Cyberis• 11 years ago

kali.org's SSL cert shows as invalid due to a subject mismatch. Is that on purpose?

phuckkali5• 11 years ago

Kali is a pretty poor distro. Merely a fork of debian for no other purpose than to create clickable icons/menu items for cli applications that require sudo. So 99% of the security apps they install are presented in an unusable form. Nothing you can't do with debian and a few runs of apt-get.

tacone3• 11 years ago

They ship customized kernel and drivers for obvious reasons. That's the real deal.

ryanlol3• 11 years ago

What does their "customized kernel" do? (Besides having a few wifi drivers built in)

phuckkali5• 11 years ago

The point is that none of the menu items are worth anything as they spawn an xterm, which emits an error about requiring sudo, then exits. Having a metric ton list of installed tools that are displayed and are not usable seems pretty daft.

RandomBK• 11 years ago

It's been a while since I used Kali so this might have changed, but the distro provides pentest-focused default configs and patchsets that can be a pain to set up yourself. Configuring your own systems can also leave behind revealing information that will allow others to trace your activities.

Kali is designed to allow you to quickly set up throwaway systems for particular projects. It's far from perfect, but represents a better starting point than a general-purpose distro.

antsar• 11 years ago

Doesn't Kali default to having you login as "root", for pretty much this exact reason?

phuckkali5• 11 years ago

So run everything else as root. Real secure. "Make everything setuid 0!"

phuckkali5• 11 years ago

Actually that does not fix the issue with cli tools having links that expand to a rapidly closing xterm.

tacone3• 11 years ago

TL;DR Kali Linux is now a rolling distribution, which pulls packages from Debian testing.

digitalzombie• 11 years ago

It took awhile to figure out what happen to backtrack seeing this Kali Linux I was curious about Backtrack.

Kali Linux is the successor of Backtrack but on Debian.

Interesting, they should have kept the brand sheesh.

vmorgulis• 11 years ago

At the request of Rapid7, we have removed the Metasploit Community / Pro package from Kali Linux and now host the open-source metasploit-framework package only...
In addition, the Rapid7 team no longer maintains the Metasploit package in Kali...

Seems they had a problem with metasploit company.

kkl• 11 years ago

It is likely in response to this: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/...

resonanttoe• 11 years ago

Anyone else getting a weird sha1sum on the Torrent?

I've downloaded twice and I'm getting a34527e9178e7185eebbca0730d825a7c78fcca4

Kali's website (and sha1 file) says aaeb89a78f155377282f81a785aa1b38ee5f8ba0

I'm getting from http now, but its slow as sin.

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