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What (Linux based) OS do you recommend?

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24-02-2018, 01:02 AM
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Hello everyone,

For a long time, I didn't kept me busy with security and security related topics. But now I want to focus again on this subjects, I want to gain knowledge related to (ethical) hacking, pentesting, rev-engineering, malw& bots. Not only about using some tools and/or creating them, but also to secure system against them.

As an IT-student, I have some knowledge about some of the subjects and I've read once a lot about them. I also have programming knowledge.

What would you suggest me, where to start? Which books and tools will you suggest me? And which OS will you recommend me to run when I work on these subjects?
  • Kali
  • Ubuntu
  • Parrot Security
  • TEN
  • Subgraph
Sincerely,
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24-02-2018, 01:05 AM
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Black Arch or Kali for sure.

I've got Kali both dual booted with windows on my laptop and bootable via a USB on my keychain. I'm an IT student in the field of web development and not too much for cyber security so i can't give my best shout on it but I've researched into Linux based OS' frequently over the past months. I can't suggest where to look and where to start, but one of the two operating systems that i provided would fancy you nicely.

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24-02-2018, 02:45 PM
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For my VPSs I prefer CentOS 6 64 bit as CentOS is still the better one for me for web development. I like to use it in combo with Nginx. For desktop I'm still on Windows 7 Professional. I find that I can control Windows 7 better than I can control Windows 10. There are too many bells and whistles in Windows 10 that one is forced to take with much less control to control it.

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24-02-2018, 04:31 PM
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I prefer Kali but it's really up to you which you should use, I have an old laptop with Kali exclusively and even though it's slow, it gets the job done.

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24-02-2018, 04:33 PM
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Sometimes i'm using Kali Linux for spoofing and joke my friends

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24-02-2018, 11:11 PM
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Thank you very much for your responses! After some research, I decided to choose for Kali. Black Arch is also interesting, but it seems more complicated Smile

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Here's a 'little' help I found on youtube for getting familiar with the tools in Kali linux, try it out and tell me what you think Tongue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9cNFPQFqM
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For VPS Centos 7, definitely. Also I prefer Plesk along with it. If you want free Admin Panel, Vesta is something I prefer more than Webmin.

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This post was last modified: 27-02-2018, 04:20 PM by 0x1994
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26-02-2018, 06:07 AM
forscend Wrote: Here's a 'little' help I found on youtube for getting familiar with the tools in Kali linux, try it out and tell me what you think Tongue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9cNFPQFqM

Hey forscend! Thank you very much for the link! It looks awesome, the whole course is uploaded :D Thank you!

P.S. After some time, I will contact you to inform about my opinion and how I improved my knowledge
26-02-2018, 07:45 AM
owladmin Wrote: For VPS Centos 7, definitely. Also I prefer Plesk along with it. If you want free Admin Panel, Vesta is something I prefer more than Webmin.

Thank you for you reply! I will consider you advice!

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24-02-2018, 01:05 AM
Pecker Wrote: Black Arch or Kali for sure.

I've got Kali both dual booted with windows on my laptop and bootable via a USB on my keychain. I'm an IT student in the field of web development and not too much for cyber security so i can't give my best shout on it but I've researched into Linux based OS' frequently over the past months. I can't suggest where to look and where to start, but one of the two operating systems that i provided would fancy you nicely.

I did not know BlackArch. I'm going to have to prove it.
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