Kali Linuc
Thomas
I'd love, along with Debian and Ubuntu, to have Kali selectable as distribution option - linux kernel, dtb, headers, u-boot, overlays and armbian-config would be the perfect base for it (and every other distribution imho)
Being inspired by GoVanguard/karmbian, which is based on armbian's previous framework, I tried grossly "injecting" kali support into armbian branch v24.02 - but I'm lost; definitely no developer, just playing around
I think orange pi boards are nice and hold potential, but manufacturer is stuck at an old forked armbian framework, old kernel and hacky dtbs - Armbian is great and I hope to get kali tools on it without "Frankensteining" Debian with overlapping repos, conflicts and pinnings
Would love to get some proper support - sunxi64-current (6.6) works a charm, injection patches are ok, but even when deployed on trixie and using a kali extension script, the are overlapping packages - It would be great to have Kali distro just integrated in this framework
Hi @going, thanks for following up!
Kali is the de-facto (in my opinion) penetration-testing and learning platform (I'm passionate about wireless) - orangepi boards are very decent hardware-wise but software support is lacking
I enjoyed learning and playing around with armbian for the past 3 days, and I think it's the best framework for building self-contained small distros
I'm looking towards a clean, lean, cli distro for my SBCs, kali is a great platform and Armbian with its framework works better than the patched-up google-drive solutions from vendor (kernel 6.1 vs kernel 6.6)
Being a debian derivative (kali), I see the potential of converging armbian cleanliness with kali - especially since with older framework GoVanguard did it for some boards, and orangepi itself is based on a previous generation of armbian
As of now, for running kali, I'm bound to RaspberryPI boards, as are the only ones with broad "mainline" kali coverage - in full honesty though I think armbian is a much superior framework than kali-arm for building
I like a lot mainline support and armbian brought mainline support for both u-boot and kernel on orangepizero3 - I want to try and come up with a board config for orangepizero2w on armbian as soon as I find a kali solution!
Specifically Kali has a lot of metapackages provididing wireless tools, metasploit and windows powershell toolkits and so on; it's specialized in offensive/defensive security; an assortment difficult to find elsewhere without major efforts
Kali is in a lot of ways a polished SID with all of their own custom bits added. It can be debootstrap'd just like Debian, Devuan and Ubuntu. I did find some services didn't work on boot; 'ssh avahi bluetooth ntp'. But there could be some option they have I'm not aware of to allow those services to start out of the box. Creating a custom service to start those does the trick though.
As far as patched for hacking wireless drivers or/and kernel tweaks, we should have most of them, probably more then Kali Linux. In technical sense there are just userspace applications, which are IMO included into that extension. The rest, majority, about Kali is myth, produced by Hollywood and community.
@Igor I get your point, Kali is mostly userspace and the convenience to have everything packaged (and rolling) in the same place - the only thing Armbian lacked was wifi injection capabilities which I solved by placing kali kernel patches in
As you can see there are Armbian packages being overriden by Kali's counterpart: how may I know there's no "Frankestein" effect under the hood? I'd feel much safer knowing that Kali packages have been bootstrapped during image build itself - If I select "Bookworm" with "kali-extension.sh", the list gets much longer
@c0rnelius Kali network services, especially avahi being able to broadcast services, thus giving away a penetration tester "presence", are disabled by default - in the past HCIUART was disabled by default too due to some reason I can't remember; nevertheless everything can be (re-)enabled, unmasked, etc by standard means - Kali does even include some fancy cryptroot-luks kernel patches that automatically "destroy" data on boot when full-disk-encryption is active in case of specific passwords being passed (like a dead man's switch I suppose)
I want to use Kali Linux on my Windows 11 machine through wsl. After installing kali on my wsl, I did sudo apt update -y which worked fine, then sudo apt upgrade -y which is now stuck at 2% progress for over 20 min. This operation shouldn't take that long.
Performed sudo apt update -y and this worked fine, then sudo apt upgrade -y, which is not completing. The progress bar is stuck at 2% for over 20 minutes now. I can't terminate the process with "ctrl + c". If I try to open another kali terminal window and run the sudo apt upgrade command, then I get the "Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 126 (apt)..." error.
I tried to install my new hyperpixel panel on my raspberry 3 running kali linux today.
I used: curl bash
got a error that i cannot have root access so i made a second account without superuser rights and tried again.
This time i got this error:
I had a monitor connected via hdmi to the pi at the same time so i disconnected it but it does not help. Also i tried to disconnect the screen and connect the hdmi again to the big monitor but i did not get a picture back.
My raspberry is a model 3 B.
First i had raspberian installed under noobs,
today i tried a clean install of raspberian from a image without noobs, i downloaded the image from the raspberian website (2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.img) first i used sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade until nothing new came in. (Reboots in between) So i used the most recent version of raspberian.
The display behaves the same as before with raspberian under noobs installed (no picture, backlicht on) the only difference is
without noobs installed i cannot even delete the hyperpixel entrys from my config to see anything again (with shift pressed in on boot nothing happens). But i can use my windows pc to edit the config on the sd card.
I found the error. It was one of the pins, i mesured them all with a meter and one had no connection for whatever reason, visually it looked sound. I replaced it and now it works! Thank you!
I still hope to get it to work in Kali linux, but i am glad it is not broken.
I've installed Kali Linux, or I'm trying to install it. Why is it so hard? Why doesn't it recognize my hardware? Why do I need to set up so many things manually? Why can't I install the applications I want to use? Why don't tutorials written for other distributions work?
Kali Linux is a distribution for professional penetration testers who are already very familiar with Linux. It is meant to be used from a USB dongle for penetration testing. It can be installed, but it is not really meant to be. It is not meant for general use (even by professional penetration testers) such as Internet browsing, word processing, gaming, development, etc.
If you want a distribution that is designed to be easy for beginners and where beginners can find a lot of help, use Ubuntu. You can ask for help on our sister site Ask Ubuntu or on the Ubuntu forums. (Do NOT ask for help on Ask Ubuntu or the Ubuntu forums if you're using a distribution that is based on Ubuntu, but is not one of the official variants of Ubuntu!)
With any distribution, even distributions targeted for beginners, you can learn by looking under the hood. The difference is that with easy-to-use distributions, you can install first, and then explore to learn.
Using Kali does not make you a hacker! Too many people think so and are completely out of their depth, being unable to do basic tasks in some cases. If you wish to learn the fundamentals the right way, forget about Kali at first. Kali's a Debian fork, and a modern version of Ubuntu or Debian has better hardware support. You might also be able to find repositories with the same tools Kali does for these distros. That's for later though. Work through something like Linux the hard way or LFS101. Understand the basics. Learn Linux before you get yourself delusions of grandeur. You make yourself a hacker, not the distro.
Kali is a somewhat overrated distro that's specialised, attracts skiddies, and doesn't have anything special to offer to the newbie Linux user. You'll find that with a certain degree of hacking skill, you'd probably end up customizing your own environment anyway. Kali's really designed for the middle ground where one has basic-good skills but needs a standard, fairly substantial set of tools available. It is certainly a terrible distro for someone who isn't used to bash or the Linux environment.
If you are using Kali to learn/develop/use it as a desktop/notebook environment, select a more stable and user friendly distribution. Please take the time to have a look at the other answers on this thread.
These together with it being a rolling release drinking from Debian testing and mixing random packages from Debian unstable means you will get stranger problems than using another distribution when using it as a production system/desktop;
Due to the nature/instability of Kali, and being it a rolling release often it may make more sense reinstalling the latest version from scratch than upgrading/investing time into fixing it when you face update problems - and facing problems in updates is more the norm than the exception;
If you are trying to setup an Wifi adapter in a VM, the adapter is in the physical machine and not in the VM machine, and as such has to configured as passthrough/captured by the hypervisor/Virtualbox/VMWare see How to use Wireless Network in Virtualbox? e.g. you can only configure it once, either in the host or in a VM;
If you intend to place a wifi adapter in Monitor mode, you have got to have a primary network/Internet connection, either an ethernet adapter or another Wifi stick for both Internet access and not losing remote control of the VM/raspberry being it remote;
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