Kali Linux vs Parrot Operating System

 

hello everyone it's zade from zed

security

and in this video i want to answer a

very common question that i get

which is what is the best hacking

operating system

is it kai linux is it pirate os do real

hackers

use these operating systems and what

about windows and osx

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so first of all let's simplify the

situation forget about windows and os x

don't get me wrong they're good

operating systems for daily use

and for other uses but when it comes to

hacking they're just not that good

because a lot of the hacking tools are

simply not designed to work on windows

you can get them to work if you really

try to but they'll still be buggy

and in many cases it'll just be really

difficult to get them to work in windows

now i know what you're gonna say but

zade you use os x

and that's correct but i only use os x

for my daily use

i'm a big believer in separating your

domains

so i use osx for my daily use but i use

a hacking

operating system when i want to hack and

i also use several other different

operating systems

for different uses so i'd use tails or

cubes if i'm accessing the dark web

and i'd use other different operating

systems for different

uses you can do this by having different

computers

or you can actually install these

operating systems

as virtual machines and that's actually

what i do and you see me do it in my

courses

so i have a hacking operating system and

several other operating systems

all installed as virtual machines inside

os

x which is the computer that i use for

my daily use you can have them installed

inside your windows machine the one that

you use for your daily use that's not a

problem and then

use each one of them for a different

purpose for the purpose that they're

made for

so now that we have windows and os x out

of the way

we are left with linux so the question

now is

what is the best linux hacking distro

now if you know anything about linux you

know that there are

so many different flavors and different

linux distros

there are ones that are made for general

use there are ones for everyday

use there are ones for design and there

are linux destroys for hacking

and the most popular as you know kali

linux

and parrot os now to answer the question

which is best

it's very important to understand how

these linux distros are built

so we have a number of base

general use linux distros examples would

be debian

red hat and arch these are usually very

stable linux distros

that existed for a long period of time

and therefore

they're usually used as a base in order

to build

other distros for example we have a very

common linux distro called ubuntu

that is designed to be user friendly and

easy to use

ubuntu is built on debian but it comes

with a nicer graphical interface

with its own software manager and a

number of really useful programs

that make the operating system easier to

use

and more user-friendly another example

is mint

mint is built on ubuntu that is built on

debian

so you want to try to make debian more

user-friendly

but with the extra added features ubuntu

became resource hungry

therefore we have debian which combines

best of both worlds

so it uses its own graphical user

interface that is less resource hungry

but still maintains all of the user

friendliness

and the nice features that ubuntu offers

to help make debian

more user-friendly and easy to use so

these other hacking distros are no

different than all of the other linux

distros

they pick a base and they install a

number

of hacking tools on them so cali

pirate and backbox all are popular

hacking distros

and they're all built on debian we also

have

arch strike and black arch and they're

both built on arch

so if you think of it these hacking

operating systems

are simply normal linux distros that can

actually be used for any use you want

but someone came in and pre-installed a

number of hacking tools on them

so you're probably thinking now that i'm

full of and if this was the case

then why do people actually use these

operating systems if they don't offer

anything new

if they're simply linux operating

systems with tools well the answer is

very simple

it's convenience see back in the day

before we even had kali

before we even had backtrack which is

the old version of kali

we actually used to build our own

hacking distros if you want to call them

hacking distros

so you would go ahead and pick a linux

distro

that you like and you're comfortable

with and then you'd install

all of the hacking tools and the other

tools that you like yourself

and then you would make a backup of this

on a storage device or on

a cd and then you can install that on an

on a real computer or you can live boot

from it

and use it for hacking and for other

uses

to do this you had to first of all be

very comfortable with using linux

you have to know the tools that you want

to use for hacking you'll have to learn

how to properly install these tools and

configure them

and solve conflicts which is very very

annoying

and you might have to recompile the

kernel of your installing drivers and

doing some other

annoying tasks so as you can see there

is a bit of a learning curve to this

and even if you know all of this even if

you learned it and you streamlined the

process

it's still going to be time consuming

when there is updates when there's new

things to be made

it's still time consuming therefore a

bunch of really smart people at

offensive security

got the idea of making a team and making

a hacking distro

this team will work on this hacking

distro and publish it to the world

the world can also contribute to it and

this way

we will have an operating system that is

made for hacking

so we can install it it comes in with

all of the tools that we need to use

pre-configured and pre-installed so we

won't waste time

installing and configuring these tools

and that is the only reason people use

kali and such operating systems in order

to save time

so like i said kali started with

backtrack which was based on slacks

and then kali linux came in which is

based on debian

and right now we have the latest

versions of kali and parrot

and both of them are really really cool

operating systems in my opinion

there are other good up hacking

operating systems but i think

kali and pirate really take the

spotlight

these days but as these operating

systems grew

they tried to tailor for different

hacking fields and for different uses

so both of these operating systems now

come with thousands of tools

and you probably don't even know how to

use a lot of them

therefore you're installing these huge

operating systems with a huge amount of

tools

and you probably don't even need to use

a lot of these tools

these extra tools are using your

resources they are taking up space and

they're slowing down your computer

for no reason therefore in my opinion

now that these operating systems have

grew so much

and are trying to become a hacking

operating system

with the idea of one size fit all i feel

like we kind of need to go back

to where we started with you creating

your own hacking

operating system obviously once you know

that hacking is your thing and you want

to continue with this

then it is a very good idea to actually

build your own hacking operating system

because that way you'll only have the

tools that you want to use yourself

you'll also learn how to properly

install them and configure them so if

something breaks you'll be able to fix

it quickly

and it's not a problem that you have a

limited amount of tools

because let's say you learned a new

topic and you wanted to install new

tools

you can just go ahead and install these

tools and have them part

of your own hacking operating system

instead of downloading kali or

parrot with a thousand tools and you're

only using 10.

so bottom line is both kali and parrot

os

are great hacking operating systems

which one you want to use is a matter of

preference

but in my opinion the best thing to do

is to actually have your own hacking

operating systems

with the tools that you like yourself at

the end of the day

like i've been saying throughout the

whole video the operating system that

you use

does not matter it is the tools that are

important if you know how to use the

tools you can use them in any operating

system

and i know what you're thinking right

now why do i use kali linux in my

hacking courses

if i recommend creating your own hacking

distro the answer for this is very

simple

first of all convenience like i said it

saves

so much time of having to go and

download a bear linux and install

all the tools that you need to install

on it so it's a really good way to get

my students

starting and learning really quickly

it's also a great way for me to

introduce them to kali

and such operating systems and as we

said before

the operating system doesn't matter at

all it's the tools

that you use on this operating system so

once they learn hacking in my courses

and how to use the tools

in kali they can use these tools on any

operating system it doesn't really

matter

as long as they manage to install the

tools on that operating system

anyway that's just my personal opinion

let me know in the comments which

hacking distro you like the most

or do you use your own hacking distro

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