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Kali Linux  has been released yesterday, 11-Aug-2015. Kali Linux 2.0 is now with a major release in tools, distribution and user interface since March 2013. Here are the major changes that you can see in Kali Linux 2.0. new 4.0 kernel based on Debian Jessie improved hardware and wireless drivers support for variety of Desktop Environments (GNOME, KDE, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm) updated penetration testing tools and much more.

Hi Everyone. Today I am going to show you how to create bootable usb in Kali Linux using line utility. There are several 3rd party utilities available in the market, some of them are UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer, YUMI and RMPrepUSB. These all are GUI-based utilities. But, today I am going to create a linux bootable usb using dd (device driver). dd is a simple command line program that is pre-installed in almost linux based operating systems. It is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, block-by-block, regardless of their filesystem types or operating systems. Below screen-shot shows you how to create bootable usb using dd command. Tested on: Kali Linux 1.1.0a (64-bit) I logged in as a superuser . For normal user, please run sudo or su command to complete the task. STEP : Before we begin, please check the partition of your hard drive. Open terminal and run fdisk -l .  Now, plug in formatted (in fat32) usb drive and ...

For Laptop user When you are trying your hand on a new OS, it is always a good idea to test that OS in a virtual machine (vmware player, oracle vm virtualbox etc) rather than installing it on a hard drive. By doing so, you can not only save your time and effort but if somehow your OS crashes, due to some or the other reason, then you can re-install it easily. Virtual machine gives you a virtual environment, where you can install multiple OSes and test them easily. It also allows you to connect multiple virtual OSes in a network (every OS shown here represent different machine, that can communicate with each other via virtual ip address). If you have installed Kali Linux on virtual machine, then change the network setting to NAT mode and your virtual OS will now act as wired virtual machine in LAN. But, if you want your virtual OS to connect wireless , then change your network setting to Bridge mode on your virtual machine and it will ask ssid and password to connect to your virtual...

LiveCDList is a good resource on linux based OS. It keeps a track on LiveCD, LiveDVD and LiveUSB. Different Desktop, Server, Gaming, Firewall, Scientific, System Administration, etc based OS are available. A good resource for penetration testers who do not want to install OS on their hard drive. LiveCDs are costs effective and time effective resource available.

About   Synaptic Package Manager Synaptic Package Manager is GTK+- based GUI for apt (Advance Packaging Tool)- the package management used by Debian and its derivatives. Synaptic Package Manager- a very handy tool, used to install, remove and update software packages and add repositories . Though, based on deb packages but can be used on the system bsed on RPM packages. Features Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages System-wide upgrade Package search utility Manage package repositories Find packages by name, description and several other attributes Select packages by status, section, name or a custom filter Sort packages by name, status, size or version Browse available online documentation related to a package Download the latest changelog of a package Lock packages to the current version Force the installation of a specific package version Undo/Redo of selections Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager Allows creation of download scrip...

Installing a software manually on Linux platform is quite a difficult task, especially to those who comes from Windows platform. It's not like Windows  where executable file is double clicked by the user and perform few next-next steps to complete a task. In Linux system, most of the downloaded softwares are manually configured through terminal (though Synaptic Package Manager, Ubuntu Software Center and others are GUI based package management tool for apt (Advance Packaging Tool) that not only checks the dependency of the software but also guides you how to install the software successfully).  But, installing a software manually not only guides you but also allows you how to configure it on your own way. It makes you technically sound and allows you to know more about your Linux system. If you keep few things in mind the you could install a software easily and successfully. Tips: 1. Once you download a software please check the online documentation of the software and read it...

xdman or x treme d ownload man ager is an awesome download manager client that can download a file upto a speed of 500%. It support any browser with browser integration support. Developed by Mr. Subhra Das Gupta - a software developer from Tech Mahindra, India. xdman support resume download, it  can download large files, hd videos and even flash embed videos. Available in .tar.gz (generic linux), .deb (ubuntu, debian, mint etc) and .exe (windows) file extension. I have tested it on kali linux, ubuntu and debian linux and it's running fine. To download xdman, 1. Goto  http://xdman.sourceforge.net/download.html . For kali linux platform, I chose  Generic Installer for Linux/ OS X . 2. Download the file and save it on specified folder. 3. Navigate the file to extract it. 4. Read install.txt file from the folder to proceed to the next step of installation. Make sure Java Runtime Environment and flash plug-in (if you want to download flash videos) is installed on y...