Alternatives to Kali Linux for all platforms with any license

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Parrot Security OS

Parrot is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian Testing and designed with Security, Development, and Privacy in mind. It includes a full portable laboratory for...

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BlackArch

BlackArch Linux is an Small Arch Linux iconArch Linux -based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 1218 tools.
- Blackarch has more tools available in their repos! Guest • May 2016 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
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Cyborg Linux

The most advanced, powerful and yet beautiful penetration testing distribution ever created.Lined up with ultimate collection of tools for pro Ethical Hackers and Cyber...
- Discontinued have not been any updates on their website in almost 2 years.
- Easy to use, fast and a lot of tools Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
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BackBox Linux

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments.

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Wifislax

Wifislax is a Slackware-based live CD containing a variety of security and forensics tools.

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Dracos Linux

Dracos Linux is purposed as an educational, especially to recognize the operation system of Linux and we respect ethical hacking.

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SELKS

SELKS is a Debian-based live distribution designed for network security management.
- its for network management,not for penetration testing, ethical hacking. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
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Matriux

Matriux is a fully featured security distribution consisting of a bunch of powerful, open source and free tools that can be used for various purposes including, but not...
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, Matriux Blue, released in August 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
- There are many tools are available in this Operating System. And this is the first penetration testing distro in Asia. Guest • May 2017
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Caine

CAINE Computer Aided INvestigative Environment Live CD/DVD, computer forensics, digital forensics CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian...

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BlackBuntu

Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment. BlackBuntu Linux it's also a software repositories that are constantly...
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer maintained and the official website is no longer available, but it can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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Bugtraq

Bugtraq system offers the most comprehensive distribution, optimal, and stable with automated services manager in real time. This distribution based on the 3.2 and 3.4...

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Pengwin

The first Linux® distribution optimized for WSL. Based on Debian®. From open-source software startup Whitewater Foundry. Formerly known as WLinux.

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ArchStrike

ArchStrike is a penetration testing and security layer on top of Arch Linux done the Arch Way and optimized for i686, x86_64, ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8. We follow the Arch...

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