OK, so I am taking Cyber security classes at my college, and I am getting myself into pen testing and stuff of that sort (but still completely a newbie). I am deciding between what OS I want for my laptop < Debian or Kali >. I know Kali is used mostly for security field type work, but I would also like to be able to practice on my Developing skills to. would kali os be a good choice for me or would debian be a better choice for security/development? I have met a few security professionals who keep telling me that real professionals use whatever os they want and just build their own tools?
I'm running kali linux. I'm having troubles installing pretty much anything, because when I add any ppa using the add-apt-repository command, I get an error message. I'll use simple screen recorder as an example
add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.EQM7zzCyye --trustdb-name /etc/apt//trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-security-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-jessie-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-squeeze-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-automatic.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//debian-archive-wheezy-stable.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//kali-archive-keyring.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
Can someone please tell me what is going on? I have never been able to add a ppa before using kali linux.
I just wanted to say hi, I am a linux newbie, and enjoying it. I've had a handful of classes and I have a couple decent sandboxes (VMware & VB) with about 6 distros (Kali, Ubuntu desktop & Serv, CentOS, Gentoo, OpenSuse and Slackware). I've been working on my Bachelors in Information Security Management and hopefully headed to grad school next winter.
I love the pen-testing with Kali which has been a prime focus for the past couple years but being confined to a classroom I learn only so much. Which brought me here.
I tend to lurk more than post. I have been lurking for the past couple years and I really like how helpful everyone seems to be, so thanks for the help you didn't know you were giving
-RGG
Good day everyone,
I'm currently a student and as far as I'm aware I still need windows for some program I need, but I am going over to Linux.
(Thus I'm running Windows 8 at this moment)
Today I was going to install Ubuntu 14.04.01 alongside Windows 8, everything went well till I hit the 4th step (Installation type page) of the installation:
A message like follows showed:
"This computer currently has Debian GNU/Linux (Kali Linux 1.0.7) on it. What would you like to do?"
There are then 3 options available:
1) Install Ubuntu alongside Debian GNU/Linux (Kali Linux 1.0.7)
2) Replace Debian GNU/Linux (Kali Linux 1.0.7) with Ubuntu
3 and 4 is greyed out.
5) Something else (You can create resize partitions yourself, or choose multiple partitions for Ubuntu.
I just want to make sure what option to choose, I cant afford to lose all my data and windows.
Problem: Showing Kali Linux as current OS and not Windows 8.
Possible reason for showing Kali Linux as current OS:
I have a live CD of Kali Linux and ran it a few times in the past, but according to my knowledge it shouldn't have changed anything.
Maybe the 1st option is still the right one even though the current OS isn't listed right? Or the 3rd option is like a manual setting I guess.
Thanks for the time reading and helping!
Hi everyone! Hope all is well with you and yours.
So i've been tinkering with installs on my "lab rat" cheapo laptop and since im in a lot of linux courses for my degree in information security. With that said, have you installed kali on an external HD? If so, is there a certain brand you'd recommend? I can dual boot it which i may end up doing. I really want this pen-tester to not be on a visor (i currently use both vmware and vbox.
Looking forward to all your advice. Thanks.
RandyGG
guys help me.........
now i am using mx1 latest version which is based on debian . now i want to install all KALI TOOLS in my distro . how can i do it ...plz give
me links or ppa. thanks
I previously installed kdenlive in previous Debian versions with the suggested command:
apt-get install kdenlive frei0r-plugins dvgrab recordmydesktop dvdauthor genisoimage
but it gives error messages in debian 8 saying packages not available
maybe my sources.list is wrong?
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.0.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20150425-12:54]/ jessie contrib main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org jessie main
# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install. The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#
# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
# deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
What should I do?
Hi,
Previously I had installed VMware Player 6.0.1 with Kali 1.0.6 without any issues. I decided to upgrade both with a clean install to VMware Player 6.0.2 with Kali 1.0.7. Now Kali freezes on me a couple of times a day. When it freezes the light on my caps lock blinks and the only way I can get out is to close VMware Player. Is anybody able to give me some advice on how to fix this. I have reinstalled these again but the same thing. I am a newbie so be gentle.
I try to upgrade the disto currently running in my box:
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (squeeze)
Release: 6.0
Codename: squeeze
My sources.list looks like following:
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
After 2 commands:
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
I have the same old good squeeze.
Help, please
yours`
sehrguey
Hi all,
This is my /etc/apt/sources.list of jessie, what's wrong as I am getting the following error output .
error :-
Code:
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/main Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/contrib Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Err http://http.debian.net jesssie/non-free Sources
404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
Fetched 7,819 B in 25s (307 B/s)
W: The repository 'http://http.debian.net jesssie Release' does not have a Release file. This is deprecated, please contact the owner of the repository.
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jesssie/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 54.192.190.154 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
This is my /etc/apt/sources.list :-
Code:
[$] cat /etc/apt/sources.list [2:23:45]
#### testing #########
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jesssie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
# testing-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
Now I am guessing one or more of the entries above are wrong, as probably all of testing-updates would probably come into play once jessie is released, right ?
This was generated via http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ for lack of better places to generate sources.list from.
I just read that in 2013 nasa stopped using windows and moved to linux quoting the need for a more stable ssystem with better security. They also said that they were using debian.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...ed-reliability
They also use lenova thinkpads for the same reasons.
My question is, what is the functionality difference with debian? Is it more stable than other distributions? If ubuntu is Debian based, what is the difference?
I'm currently using ubuntu studio Distro and very happy with it but I'm very interested in the reasons why nasa use Debian.