Hacking operating systems assessment

Yep, the only reason that pushes me to start Kali is to discover new tools ! Parrot is excellent mate, and would have been my choice if I wasn’t a UNIX nazi that cannot handle the fact to have useless dependences on his system :yum:

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I will have to disagree again. Arch can run on a purely minimum environment. Worse case scenario you can just delete most of the packages and reinstall with pacstrap. With debian you’ve gotta go full fresh install.

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It takes agreeing to disagree. This is all based on opinion. There’s litterly no right answer, except the fact that @pry0cc can’t accept the fact that there’s no right answer. :triumph:

Cheers. :smiley:

P.S. All in good nature right?

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Disagreement is a good thing. It allows you to exchange thoughts and see others point of view. There usually is never a right answer but a spectrum of opinion. Agreement allows you to see those opinions.

Just a question of point of vue. Quite enlightening :slight_smile:

So @Nitrax, the poll is pretty decisive… When are you gonna show us your setup? :stuck_out_tongue:

Looks like there are no plans.

@pry0cc I will mate, give me a few days, a lot of work to do atm. I scheduled to post it at the end of the week. Sorry for the delay :slight_smile:

Why so much hates :frowning: :stuck_out_tongue:

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No worries at all! I know how it is.

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Here’s my setup:

Coffee spilled everywhere.Piles of notebooks.Piles of books.Broken Raspberry Pi lying around.

Do I have to continue?

Cheers. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :smile: :blush:

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I’f were talking about spilled liquid. Mine is full of spilled whiskey xD just ask @oaktree

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Well, it isn’t as bad as I had it when I ate Ramen Noodles and Popcorn when I got hungry. My keyboard got Popcorn butter all over it. The Ramen Noodles… glad I don’t eat it with the juice in it. xD

Ahhhh man :smiley: that’s disgusting!

You think that’s disgusting? Dude that’s only the surface. :smiley:

I’ve taken down an LED downlight above my keyboard which meant I had drywall dust in my keyboard for a few weeks. That was a little annoying.

Well, I promised you a complete description of my setup so here we go.

The main con that I faced at work was the hardware performance. Indeed, my machine was so slow that I could not even run firefox and my virtual machine at the same time … Consequently, I designed my environment to be as much as lightweight as possible to be able to run on any configuration.

Operating System: Debian netinst

This thread already showed the eternal debate between Debian and Archlinux ^^ but my ease with this Linux distribution leads my choice. This image comes without GUI (Graphic User Interface) and usual dependencies present in basic UNIX distributions, avoiding unnecessary components which can, potentially, impact on the system performance.

Windows manager: Openbox

Even if most of my tools don’t require a GUI, it is mandatory for some of them. Therefore I chose Openbox, a lightweight and efficient tiny windows manager.

Background image manager: nitrogen

Taskbar: Tint2

Tint2 provides a complete taskbar to manage his windows. Entirely customizable, you will be able to explore your artistic side :slight_smile:

System output: Conky

Conky allows to display different information about your ressources, network traffics, etc.

Network manager: wicd

Two words : lightweight and reliable

They are the principal components of my setup. I didn’t spend too much time in its appearance. This machine is well more practical than esthetic and dedicated to my work. However, I found a theme that I customized and applied to my system. Till now, it ensured the famous wow effect from the clients (easily impressionnable ahah)

https://postimg.org/image/rf6d24ddd/

Finally, to improve my flexibility and my mobility, I installed my system on a USB stick that I mount as a Virtual Machine on virtualbox thanks to the command bellow :

sudo vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/VMDK_NAME -rawdisk MOUNT_POINT

Once the vmdk created, start a new Virtual Machine with the image previously generated and you are done ! :slight_smile:

Obviously, I can directly boot on the USB stick too. It, mainly, depends on the context and my objectives.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Best,
Nitrax

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Well, thats cool, I gotta admit.

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I think this might warrant it’s own topic. It’s up to you. Some sort of thread dedicated in sharing our setups would be dope.

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Agree, I’m going to create it.

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