What is Linux Distro for Hackers? As said before Linux provides the capability of creating Distros which are
predefined systems. Some professional Hacker communities who wanted to
give back to the community have created backtrack Distro for hackers. It
has been a huge success and has become a pathway for novice hackers.
Backtrack provided a lot of open-source hacking tools pre-loaded in the
system along with a lot of editing tools and IDE's. After a few years
backtrack has discontinued and evolved in a new form as Kali Linux which
is now one of the most used Operating systems by Hackers. It has a lot of
hacking tools neatly organized. Apart from Kali Linux, there are also
Distros like Parrot Linux that are used by hackers. In this book, we will use
Kali Linux as default Distro to explain the concepts for a wide overview. In
the next section, we will explain how to install Kali Linux in detail. Follow
along to understand things easily. Let's go.
Installation of Linux Distros In this section, we will discuss how to install any Linux Distro with step by
step instructions. We will also give a detailed analysis of topics like
partition, boot loader, and others to get a good overview of the Linux
essentials. Let us start now!
Essentials for installation Step 1: Get the Boot ISO file of the Linux Distro you need to install on your
system. You can download it from the websites to load into a bootable CD
or USB.
Step 2: If you are interested to use windows at the same time in your system you
can use double boot option to choose the operating system at boot up time.
Anyone of them will be selected to boot according to your choice.
Step 3: You can also use a virtual machine software like VMware in windows to
boot into Linux. This is the most preferable way by hackers because it
becomes tough to track when you are using a virtual system.
By this explanation, we have understood the different ways we can use
Linux. Now in this section, we will look at the step by step installation of
any Linux Distro. We will assume for our convenience as Kali Linux as we
are learning about hacking.
