Has anyone used KaliNix or nix-security-lab or spectrum-os as alternatives to Kali Linux? I feel like the Nix pkg format is a superior choice to packaging up security tools, especially those with tons of dependencies (such as metasploit or ronin), compared to trying to break everything down into tiny individual Debian packages. #kalilinux#nixos#nix#nixpkgs
Backstory, I once submitted Ronin to Kali Linux to be packaged. At first one of their developers accepted the issue and I gave them all of the information on external dependencies and how to install Ronin, etc. Several months passed without hearing anything back. Then suddenly out of the blue they closed the issue with a vague and rambling excuse about how Ronin hadn't had a release in a while (most of KaliLinux's tools haven't had a release in a while or only have had one release), or that they only package self-contained static binaries (Metasploit is not a self-contained static binary, yet they packaged it). or how they want to save on disk space (Metasploit takes up far more disk space than Ronin, yet they packaged Metasploit).
Ever since then I began to suspect that KaliLinux is actually holding back the InfoSec community by selectively choosing which tools to package or not to package.
I feel like we need a more decentralized approach to providing a security tools environment. I feel like NixPkg/NixOS can provide that. #kalilinux#nix#nixpkg#nixos
Before we wrap up the year, it’s time to get out one last Kali release for 2023. #OpenSource#KaliLinux
Announcing Kali 2023.4! https://kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-4-release/ for a focus on the addition of Hyper-V support to Vagrant, ARM64 Cloud images, support for the Pi 5, and an update to Gnome 45. Check it out!
The first few pallets of Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series) are on their way out of Taiwan to Batch 1 customer doorsteps! We're looking forward to seeing what you all think of them.
It's weird that Kali Linux still insists on packaging security tools as ye olde fashioned way. This becomes difficult if your tool has dependencies which themselves need to be packaged as well. Nix seems like a better tool for the job of packaging up janky hacker tools, which might be written in python (2 or 3), node, or ruby, and have hundreds of tiny dependencies. #nixpkgs#kalilinux
I do not know if it is because of their interesting choice of logo or desktop theme and wallpaper. But the sheer amount of newbies who think to install and attempt to use, Kali Linux, is nuts, in my opinion.
If you are new to Linux, Kali Linux is not the distro for you. -- Trust me (and everyone who says the same).
Kali Linux is not newbie friendly. -- It is mean to industry level security testing, hacking, monitoring, etc...
Kali Linux is locked down in such away that as a newbie, you're not going to have a great experience. It is not meant to be used easily as a regular desktop.