Offensive Security, the creators of Swiss army knife for Security researchers, Penetration testers and Hackers have finally released the much awaited and most powerful version of Kali Linux 2.0. Kali Linux 2.0 (Codename ‘Kali Sana’), an open-source penetration testing platform brings hundreds of Penetration Testing, Forensics, Hacking and Reverse Engineering tools together into a Debian-based Linux distribution.
Features of Kali Linux 2.0 :
- Runs on Linux kernel 4.0,
- use full Gnome 3 Desktop instead of gnome-fallback,
- Kali 2.0 added inbuilt screencasting tool so that you can record desktop.
- Kali Linux now added desktop notifications, so that you do not miss anything,
- improved hardware and wireless driver coverage,
- Featuring new cutting-edge wireless penetration tools,
- support for a variety of Desktop Environments,
- updated desktop environment and tools,
- Support Ruby 2.0, which will make Metasploit will load much faster,
Kali 2.0 now natively supports KDE, GNOME3, Xfce, MATE, e17, lxde and i3wm. Kali has removed metaslpoit community and pro packages but instead open source metasploit framework packages are pre-installed available.
Kali Linux users can upgrade their Kali 1.x to Kali 2.0 without reinstalling whole operating system from scratch. To do this, you will need to edit your source.list entries, and run a dist-upgrade as shown below.
cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
EOF
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10.
cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
EOF
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10.
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