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Kali Linux offers documentation at, bug reporting at and a Kali forum site at.

As of just a week ago, Kali Linux had already been downloaded 90,000 times and it is experiencing quite a bit of momentum. To get your hands on the latest Kali Linux distribution, you can download it from: or. For years they have offered their popular Penetration Testing with BackTrack (PWB) class, but with the introduction of Kali Linux, that class name will likely change. Offensive Security is a security training and penetration testing consulting firm that has been a creator, supporter and maintainer of BackTrack since the beginning. The development of Kali Linux was funded by Offensive Security. You can also customize your desktop environment to use Gnome(default), KDE, LXDE, XFCE or whatever you prefer. It is also easy to customize your own Kali Linux so that it contains only the packages and features that are required. Kali also has improved software repositories that are synchronized with the Debian repositories so it makes it easier to keep it updated, apply patches and add new tools. Whereas BackTrack was built on Ubuntu, Kali is built from scratch and constructed on Debian and is FHS-compliant. Kali Linux is a new open source distribution that facilitates penetration testing. But before, you do, check out Kali Linux first.

If you want to explore this version, you can download it from this site. The latest version of BackTrack is version 5 release 3 and it came out on August 13, 2012. BackTrack made it easy to create a new VM from the downloaded ISO, perform the assessment, then either archive that VM for future reference or delete it when done to remove the evidence. If you want to see a complete list of all the tools just run "dpkg -list". BackTrack contains so many security tools that it is too difficult to list them all. BackTrack made performing a security assessment easier because all of the common tools that you needed were all packaged into one nice distribution and ready to go at a moment's notice. BackTrack is an open-source Linux-based penetration testing toolset. Many security practitioners have been using BackTrack to perform their security assessments.