Will you be upgrading to Windows 10?

[BurningDesire]

I'll upgrade from windows 7 at least for DX12 but I'll keep using fedora as my main OS.

Why use that form of linux when you can use Kali and do some serious hacking. I run it off a vm because apple doesn't like linux partitions on there machines

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Why use that form of linux when you can use Kali and do some serious hacking. I run it off a vm because apple doesn't like linux partitions on there machines

You can install all of the same tools on any Linux distro, Kali is just convenient because it includes a lot of tools, but it's not really designed for use as a primary OS

 

[FAST6191]

Are you genuinely suggesting Kali as a day to day operating system? I think that is in similar leagues to telling someone that just wants an office/web machine to go linux from scratch or arch.

 

[BurningDesire]

Are you genuinely suggesting Kali as a day to day operating system? I think that is in similar leagues to telling someone that just wants an office/web machine to go linux from scratch or arch.

I use it as a day to day operating system. (for reasons) I modded the heck out of it though to fit my style so it can be acceptable for everyday use

 

[FAST6191]

" I modded the heck out of it though to fit my style so it can be acceptable for everyday use "

Hope you had a good time doing that and learned things in the process. Personally I reckon most hacking needs consist of

Some kind of web and javascript debugger. http://getfirebug.com/ gets installed just moments after adblock, noscript, requestpolicy and greasemonkey around here.

Maybe a WEP cracker, probably not so useful in 2015 though. I will probably still grab a copy of kismet though.

A packet scanner. https://www.wireshark.org/ assuming we are not all using the nice options for newer wireless security.

A port scanner, assuming I am not using a remote one then oh dear apt-get install nmap has to be added to my new install script.

wget is going to come as part of basically every distro, to be fair I did have to separately install command line whois on this machine and curl would probably not have come as standard.

A hard drive reader. 99% of the time most people will not even have to worry about timestamps on files, let alone the "I hope they do not pull up the run time from SMART logs and compare" stuff that kali heads towards.

plus a USB drive full of stuff from http://www.nirsoft.net/

Debugging tools will probably be better served by a machine set up for programming which is not kali out of the box and for something that might be obfuscated it certainly does not include big boy IDA.

I reckon downloading things from nirsoft and extracting them will be the longer part of that, give or take setting up the debugging stuff, and kali does not provide me with those.

Everything else is a wonderful tool for its domain but for most it is the same as the shiny tools that I see which never get used.

 

[BurningDesire]

" I modded the heck out of it though to fit my style so it can be acceptable for everyday use "

Hope you had a good time doing that and learned things in the process. Personally I reckon most hacking needs consist of

Some kind of web and javascript debugger. http://getfirebug.com/ gets installed just moments after adblock, noscript, requestpolicy and greasemonkey around here.

Maybe a WEP cracker, probably not so useful in 2015 though. I will probably still grab a copy of kismet though.

A packet scanner. https://www.wireshark.org/ assuming we are not all using the nice options for newer wireless security.

A port scanner, assuming I am not using a remote one then oh dear apt-get install nmap has to be added to my new install script.

wget is going to come as part of basically every distro, to be fair I did have to separately install command line whois on this machine and curl would probably not have come as standard.

A hard drive reader. 99% of the time most people will not even have to worry about timestamps on files, let alone the "I hope they do not pull up the run time from SMART logs and compare" stuff that kali heads towards.

plus a USB drive full of stuff from http://www.nirsoft.net/

Debugging tools will probably be better served by a machine set up for programming which is not kali out of the box and for something that might be obfuscated it certainly does not include big boy IDA.

I reckon downloading things from nirsoft and extracting them will be the longer part of that, give or take setting up the debugging stuff, and kali does not provide me with those.

Everything else is a wonderful tool for its domain but for most it is the same as the shiny tools that I see which never get used.

I plan on getting a usb rubber ducky, as for the software everything you mentioned comes pre installed with Kali Linux!

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[FAST6191]

So you will reshape Kali into a workable desktop OS but you will buy in toys (though it is by no means a bad one) rather than roll your own here. Fair enough.

I have no doubt most of the non nirsoft, non debugger stuff comes with Kali. It is the rest of the useless for most occasions/purposes, and thus useless for day to day stuff, and when I can just get a Kali liveCD in there or a VM of it spun up (depending upon what I am doing anyway) for those occasions when I might actually want a more fully featured hacker playground/toolkit.

Oh and I might wish to add http://radare.org/r/ to my list from the previous post.

 

[BurningDesire]

So you will reshape Kali into a workable desktop OS but you will buy in toys (though it is by no means a bad one) rather than roll your own here. Fair enough.

I have no doubt most of the non nirsoft, non debugger stuff comes with Kali. It is the rest of the useless for most occasions/purposes, and thus useless for day to day stuff, and when I can just get a Kali liveCD in there or a VM of it spun up (depending upon what I am doing anyway) for those occasions when I might actually want a more fully featured hacker playground/toolkit.

Oh and I might wish to add http://radare.org/r/ to my list from the previous post.

I was going to run it off a vm but i wanted the full experience. I'll look into that link too.