Pentesters' fave Kali Linux turns 10 with version 23.1

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It's also 17… and 18… and actually rather cool

, complete with an immaculately catalogued app menu. It looks good and it works well. It has handy options such as configuring a separatepartition in the installer, and when we installed it in VirtualBox, it automatically configured the graphics driver, so the desktop resized along with the window and so on. Even if you're just a hacker-wannabe, you could do a lot worse, and other distros could learn from the attention to detail here.

The app-launcher menu is carefully sorted and categorized to help you find your way through the many dozens of bundled tools. We especially like the numbering, it's a rolling-release distro. We got the latest kernel 6.1 and Xfce 4.18.1. But saying that, these days, Kali Linux is not so much a distro as a family of them. As well as the default Xfce version, there are also KDE and GNOME editions.

There is an almost bewildering variety of different editions of Kali. You can install it locally, with versions for both x86-32 and x86-64 PCs, plus Apple Silicon Macs. Alongside those, there are versions for the Raspberry Pi 1, the Pi 2 through 4, the Pi Zero W, and Pi Zero 2 W, plus the

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