Kali Linux 2.0 Released

An anonymous reader writes: Kali Linux 2.0 has been released, together which an assortment of interesting new features. Most importantly, Kali is now a rolling distribution, using Debian Testing as their upstream source. (Download page.) There are also huge changes to the UI, including a fully fledged, custom GNOME 3 environment, as well as support for myriad other Desktop Environments. The maintainers describe the release this way: "If Kali 1.0 was focused on building a solid infrastructure then Kali 2.0 is focused on overhauling the user experience and maintaining updated packages and tool repositories." I'm enjoying 2.0 so far. What are your thoughts and comments?

Comments

So, what is the point?

[danbob999]

What's the goal of this distribution? Why would anyone choose it over Debian testing?

Whatever you do...

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

...whatever you do, don't give us any fucking clues as to what the features of interest might be or why we might be interested in this particular distro.

Re:systemd is one reason not to use Debian.

[Pulzar]

The poster was making a well-reasoned argument related to the fact that Kali Linux (like Devuan) does not include systemd in its default installation.

The poster's argument was quite irrelevant and off-topic, because Kali 2.0 does actually use systemd.

Re:My thoughts - wtf is Kali Linux?

[phantomfive]

Had we but world enough, and time,
This systemd, coder, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To write init scripts our long love's day.

But at my back I always hear
Binary logging hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Security exploits of vast eternity.

And your quaint boxen turn to dust,
And into ashes all my private keys:
The internet's a fine and public place,
But none, I think, should trust there systemds.