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Kali Linux 2024.4 released (www.kali.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where did I say otherwise? 🤔

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

You mention "sane defaults". That might mislead someone because it is ambiguous. The terminal ~~defaults~~ used to default to a root prompt, exemplifying that it isn't a distro focused on sane defaults for a desktop distro.

Kali is a tool for a specific job. Its meant mostly for hacking or troubleshooting/analysis, being an OS for executing a collection CLI/TUI and GUI utils.

-Edited everything to make myself more intelligible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has not defaulted to root prompt in many years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for some updated context.