Kali Linux
Kali Linux is a security auditing operating system and toolkit that aims to be the most advanced and versatile penetration testing distribution ever created. Kali Linux incorporates more than 300 penetration testing and security auditing programs with a Linux operating system, delivering an all-in-one solution that enables IT administrators and security professionals to test the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies. Kali Linux offers a smoother, easier penetration testing experience, making it more accessible to IT generalists as well as security specialists.
All the programs packaged with the operating system were evaluated for suitability and effectiveness before being included. They include Metasploit for network penetration testing, Nmap for port and vulnerability scanning, Wireshark for monitoring network traffic, and Aircrack-ng for testing the security of wireless networks.
- Status: active (2019-01-07)
Homepage: https://www.kali.org/
Microblog: https://twitter.com/kalilinux
Corporate sponsor: Offensive Security
- Government sponsor:
- Funding model: funded by security training and security auditing services
Merchandise: https://hackerwarehouse.com/couture/offensive-security/
- Location: completely international
user IRC: ircs://irc.freenode.net/kali-linux
- devel IRC:
- Debian IRC:
- user list:
- devel list:
- Debian list:
user forums: https://forums.kali.org/
devel forum: https://forums.kali.org/forumdisplay.php?8-Kali-Linux-Development
- Debian forum:
wiki: https://docs.kali.org
Debian derivatives census maintainer: Raphael Hertzog <buxy@kali.org> (buxy on IRC)
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/Kali
Debian derivatives census output: http://deriv.debian.net/Kali/
Subscribers: buxy@kali.org
- Debian page:
Distrowatch page: https://distrowatch.com/kali
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux
- Distribution type: live image, installable
- Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages, modifies some of them and adds new source/binary packages
- Debian archive quantity: full archive
- Based on: Debian testing
- Interfaces: primarily GNOME KDE XFCE but all are supported
- Init system: systemd
- Archive tool: reprepro
- Build tool: sbuild (with throw away union chroots)
- Image build: from scratch
- Image tool: live-build
- Install tool: debian-installer
VCS repository: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages
Bug tracker: https://bugs.kali.org
Bugs forwarded to Debian: user devel@kali.org
Package tracker: https://pkg.kali.org
- Architectures: amd64 i386 armhf armel arm64
- dpkg vendor: Kali
- Patches repo:
- Docs about Kali for Debian developers:
- Docs about Debian for Kali developers:
- Kali glossary:
Package comparison: https://pkg.kali.org/derivative/kali-dev/
- Popcon information:
- Quality assurance information:
- lintian information:
- piuparts information:
- static analysis information:
list of developers: https://www.kali.org/about-us/
- developer blogs:
- developer microblogs:
- derivatives info:
mirrors file: https://http.kali.org/README.mirrorlist
- changelogs pool:
- apt repositories (source, binary, stablerelease/nextrelease):
# Kali-dev is a mix of Debian Testing and our own packages
# It will break regularly
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf,arm64] https://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf,arm64] https://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main/debian-installer
deb-src https://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free
# Kali-Rolling is the main user distro
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf,arm64] https://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf,arm64] https://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main/debian-installer
deb-src https://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
# kali-bleeding-edge is new upstream snapshots built automatically
# they will break from time to time... no testing is done on them!
# they are meant to run in a kali-current installation
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf,arm64] https://http.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main contrib non-free
deb-src https://http.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main contrib non-free
Last updated 2019-01-07 20:10:06