Favorite pentesting distro?

1. 2016-07-24 at 9:30 PM UTC

   #1
   

   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Basically kinda, sorta followup on this bread http://niggasin.space/forum/technoph...elite-for-mint
   
   Point being i switched to backbox, i've tried PentestBox for windows, which was basically linux in an app, i tried kali which meh, i don't particularly like debian and kali has way too much tools and is the new skid OS. I tried to 'compile' my own pentesting box out of a Mint distro but that was dissapointing. So now i am on BackBox which so far i am enjoying very much and i do like Ubuntu, as pentesting and general OS. i left a partition clean for when i wanna do a dual boot, with whatever OS i fancy next, or maybe Windows 7(blergh) for vidya and graphics design solely... If i do end up putting a micrococks product back on my rig.
2. 2016-07-27 at 12:47 AM UTC

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   Merlin Houston
   Arch and either gnome or kde and then just install what you need. Get yaourt working and you have nearly everything available. Kali overwhelmed me because there were a million different tools, but they all needed a significant amount of knowledge and configuration making it pointless, if I'm going to spend an hour learning some tool I can spend 10 minutes compiling.
   
   First things first you'll have to install cmatrix and always have that running in the background for maximal l33t.
3. 2016-07-27 at 1:46 AM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   Arch and either gnome or kde and then just install what you need. Get yaourt working and you have nearly everything available. Kali overwhelmed me because there were a million different tools, but they all needed a significant amount of knowledge and configuration making it pointless, if I'm going to spend an hour learning some tool I can spend 10 minutes compiling.
   
   First things first you'll have to install cmatrix and always have that running in the background for maximal l33t.

   
   [greentext]>First things first you'll have to install cmatrix and always have that running in the background for maximal l33t[/greentext]
   
   Duh.
   
   Also, benefit of Arch Linux with yaourt over ArchAssault? And in your opinion why does arch > ubuntu?
4. 2016-07-27 at 2:24 AM UTC

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   Merlin Houston

   Also, benefit of Arch Linux with yaourt over ArchAssault?

   
   I didn't know about ArchAssault until now that looks cool, although I don't think it should be or is a big deal to install a program. It's easier to install just what you need than to have a huge distro. If it deals with the complexity of installing that's a plus.
   
   

   And in your opinion why does arch > ubuntu?

   I mean they do things differently and it goes both ways. I'd rather have newer software with new bug fixes and risk potential new bugs. The only downside is occasional package manager issues and the forum people are dicks if you don't know/care about the intricacies of how that works. You do definitely start to appreciate the more up to date software when you go to install something on a different distro and find it's not supported yet, even ones like cenots or ubuntu which stay fairly up to date.
5. 2016-07-27 at 4:17 AM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   I didn't know about ArchAssault until now that looks cool, although I don't think it should be or is a big deal to install a program. It's easier to install just what you need than to have a huge distro. If it deals with the complexity of installing that's a plus.
   
   
   I mean they do things differently and it goes both ways. I'd rather have newer software with new bug fixes and risk potential new bugs. The only downside is occasional package manager issues and the forum people are dicks if you don't know/care about the intricacies of how that works. You do definitely start to appreciate the more up to date software when you go to install something on a different distro and find it's not supported yet, even ones like cenots or ubuntu which stay fairly up to date.

   
   You're a Linux hipster, i like it. But yeah, ArchAssault is pretty cool, sadly it suffers from the same problem as Kali insofar as it comes with a shitload of tools, while BackBox is built to maximize efficiency and minimize redundancy which is one of the reasons i like it so much.
6. 2016-08-08 at 4:51 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   To basically echo "what Merlin said" >> this_post, Arch with your DE of choice, then just install what you need. Most pentesting tools are in the official repos or the AUR. Not as straightforward to set up as Kali, but the wiki has pretty good instructions that should get you there. I prefer pacaur to yaourt because you can view/edit all the PKGBUILD files at the beginning of the install, then it automates everything from there.
7. 2016-08-08 at 6:58 AM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Lulz echo joke. Where've ya been though brah i hope you've been well?
8. 2016-08-15 at 3:12 PM UTC

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   d3ll0 Yung Blood
   Kali because of the community support and ARM. Backbox because it'a not a hassle. But seriously, I use my phone running Kali connecting through a VPN as my mobile hotspot for my Backbox laptop. Spoofed MAC addresses and GPS across the board.
9. 2016-08-15 at 6:09 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   Kali because of the community support and ARM. Backbox because it'a not a hassle. But seriously, I use my phone running Kali connecting through a VPN as my mobile hotspot for my Backbox laptop. Spoofed MAC addresses and GPS across the board.

   
   You use Nethunter or Linux Deploy to run Kali on your phone? And i take it you just SSH into your laptop then?