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Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store (microsoft.com)
You can now download and install Kali Linux via the Windows Store. From a blog post on MSDN: Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali Linux to WSL in response to a blog post on Kali Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali Linux on WSL.
Sound and desktop support needs to happen. Hardcore console only folks have better things to do than play with this. People who want to learn and use Linux need this stepping stone.
why should I give a shit??????
We can trust this Linux like we can trust Windows 10 - right?
What is WSL? From Google, it seems to be the World Surf League.
Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. Arguably, anyone who needed Kali linux would be intelligent enough to install it on its own workstation. cobbling a well supported and powerful standalone Linux distribution together with the haggard proprietary burro of Microsoft Windows serves no immediate purpose other than bragging rights. At best its a desperate plea from Redmond to get professionals to treat the windows store seriously. At worst, its the same chair-flinging all-hands-on-deck histrionics we've come to expect from a company thats typically 2-4 years too late to the party but inexplicably keeps hucking resources at their version of an already established technology until quietly shuffling it under the rug ten years later after multiple dismal quarterly performances that were floated along by x-box life support cash and the ever predictable licensing fees from major corporate customers.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Why would anyone use Kali over just using Debian and adding the packages they need? Is it some kind of 1337 H/\X0R cred thing?
Never heard of Kali, it's related to MSDN, and it's on the Windows store ... so basically it's a Windows offering I've never heard of through an app store I'll never use, which means I don't give a fuck.
Honestly, put some words in that summary, tell us what the fuck it is and why the fuck we care.
Nothing in that summary is informative or compelling.
Kali 95
Now where's Fedora!?
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
WSL doesn't currently support raw sockets, so you can't really do a pen-test from WSL. This feels like script kiddie pandering.
Like SSL is 'SUSSEL'
You WSL can now download WSL and install Kali WSL Linux via the WSL Windows Store. From a WSL blog post on MSDNWSL:
Our WSL community expressed great WSL interest in bringing Kali WSL Linux to WSL in response to a WSL blog post on Kali WSL Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali WSL Linux on WSL.
Is Microsoft trying to prove that Linux is just another application for Windows?
Could this be one more nail on "Desktop Linux" coffin?
Is MS is distributing GPLv3 code alongside their proprietary binaries (bash.exe, etc.)? If so, does that grant the recipient protections from patent infringement for those specific products under the terms?
If such a grant is given to a company that is then sued by a Microsoft schill (as determined through the discovery process), can we then use the terms of the GPLv3 as a valid defense against some patent lawsuits? IANAL, but would like to know.
If I ever saw a so-called IT person running Kali under Windows I would probably fall over laughing
Well, that seems pointless to me. For most of the tools in Kali you need to power of the Linux Kernel to directly control hardware like the wifi card. e.g. Kali/aireplay isn't very useful if you can put the interface into promiscuous mode.
A ten-armed god with her hands on everything.
No thanks. I'm already not running systemd for similar reasons.
Have gnu, will travel.
It's very limited with no X server in WSL and no support for Linux device drivers
You must be wearing a black hoodie at all times.
Crap, I leant mine to my teenager...
Why the hell would I bother using some faux-Linux subsystem that runs under Windows? Isn't it just (excuse the unintentional pun) window-dressing at that point, making you feel falsely safe and cozy in your linux-wallpapered room inside the Microsoft prison? Won't there still be 'telemetry' (read as: spyware) and the usual Microsoft hegemony regardless?
or an overall with a name badge.
Why care? Because this is step 1 of 3.
Step 1: Embrace.
Just two more to go.
I recommend The Scorpion and the Frog for further reading.
WTF is WSL?
This is so far removed from this site's original concept...
I feel so sig.
This is incredibly stupid. Kali is supposed to be hyper-secure. And Windows is as known sieve, stuffed with spying straws and funnels.
Runnning Kali on top of Windows reminds me of WhatsApp’s super-duper encrypted secure tunnel between Facebook and a closed-source client.
You have to be literally medically retarded, to even consider this without it being a joke.
Then again, that is The Norm(TM) in the industry of insanity nowadays.
Where iOS, Chrome, Android, Windows8/10, Ubuntu Unity, etc, are considered good interfaces, and putting a spying microphone in your home is hailed as a genius invention, and people actually want some faceless for-profit-over-dead-bodies-if-we-get-away-with-it corporation to tell them what they want and what not a good thing.
The sooner humanity ends, the better. Fuckin explosive planetary pathogen.
With Windows being the base OS.
Which fits right into the, frankly, utter insanity, that Microsoft generally represents, and its clients are apparently mentally trapped in.
I guess some people will never get the memo that Windows is dead. Just look at how many did not get the memo with Vista. And obviously still stayed for Windows 8 and Windows 10, which, from what I can tell, can only be a parody, like Windows RG (Flash. alternative video link).