Parrot Security OS
Parrot is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian Testing and designed with Security, Development, and Privacy in mind.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Security-focused
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Security Testing
- Penetration Testing
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Command line interface
- Cloud Sync
- Real time collaboration
- Ad-free
- Portable
- No Tracking
- Rolling Release
- No registration required
- Linux-based
Tags
- Anonymity
- Security Auditing
- cryptography
- Linux
- hac
- digital-forensics
Parrot Security OS News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Parrot Security OS
Parrot 7.0 brings KDE Plasma 6, Wayland support, new security tools, and RISC-V supportParrot 7.0, code-named “Echo”, has arrived after a complete system rewrite that makes this release ...
- Maoholguin published news article about Parrot Security OS
Parrot OS 6.4 released with updated tools, Linux 6.12 kernel, and .NET supportParrot Security OS 6.4 is now available and represents the likely final release in the 6.x series. ...
- POX published news article about Parrot Security OS
Cybersecurity-focused Linux distro Parrot releases v6.3 with new tools & software updatesParrot Security has unveiled version 6.3 of its Linux distribution, tailored for cybersecurity prof...
Recent activities
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What is 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 security and digital forensics experts, but it also includes all you need to develop your own software or protect your privacy while surfing the net.
Features
Secure Always updated, frequently released and fully sandboxed! Everything is under your complete control.
Free (as in freedom) Feel free to get the system, share with anyone, read the source code and change it as you want! this system is made to respect your freedom, and it ever will be.
Lightweight We care about resources consumption, and the system has proven to be extremely lightweight and run surprisingly fast even on very old hardware or with very limited resources.







Comments and Reviews
Recently switched from Kali to ParrotOS, loving it so far.
All versions of Parrot are quite slow in updating even the most important packages. Not good for my usage. Might be good for you...
I use it instead of Kali Linux and it is verry userfriendly and easy to use also for daily use
God os has alot of hacking tools more than Kali, but lacks an easy way to install drivers, and doesn't have a software center. Does include synaptic nut its annoying to ha e to add ppa's and not all of them woek. i2p is broken and won't work. Good os for hacking but not for everyday use. The terminals are beautiful too, and has programming tools. They should make this os based on Ubuntu or Linux Lite.
Could you please write in a way that makes sense to a normal person?