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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.
Agreed. What does this have to do with Trump and The Russians!?
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?
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.
There are plenty of distributions targeted at "People who want to learn and use Linux". This one is targeted at a different group of users. And that's OK.
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.
You must be wearing a black hoodie at all times.
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?
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.
I wish I had mod points for this AC:
>> "Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing."
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>Kali Linux (previously known as BackTrack) has nothing to do with MSDN other than someone at Microsoft mentioning it now for the first time after 5 years of development that had nothing to do with Microsoft. It continues to be maintained by Offensive Security, an organization with no ties to Microsoft other than teaching people how to break Microsoft products (along with everyone else's). It's certainly not a "Windows offering" any more than vim is a Windows offering.
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> That said, if you don't already know the name Kali Linux, you probably don't work in infosec, and therefore are probably correct in your assumption regarding the number of fucks you should give about this news. Thanks for sharing with the class.
Reposting for visibility.
This is so far removed from this site's original concept...
I feel so sig.
NOT if it is running on top of Win10. That's like bolting a Pratt & Whitney Turbine to the frame of a Cessna 152.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
With something as bad as Kali? Maybe they are just trying to think all Linux distros suck big time.
Kali is braindead. Secure? Your coffee machine is also secure....