What (Linux based) OS do you recommend?

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,
0x1994

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes i'm using Kali Linux for spoofing and joke my friends

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

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9cNFPQFqM

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.

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 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

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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!

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.