Kali Linux
The penetration testing distro: Debian with hundreds of security tools ready to run. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- OffSec
- Created by
- Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns
- First release
- 2013
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.kali.org
- Family
- Debian
- Based on
- Debian testing
- Package manager
- APT
- Package format
- deb
- Release model
- Rolling
- Release cadence
- Quarterly snapshots
- Support lifetime
- Rolling
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- Xfce
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Security testing
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 2 of 5
- Architectures
- amd64, arm64, armhf