14 DAY TRIAL // After two years of development, Offensive Security, the creator of the famous BackTrack Linux distribution, has announced today, February 9, that the first point release for its Kali Linux computer operating system designed for penetration testing and digital forensics operations is now available for download.
Being powered by a Linux 3.18 kernel, which has been patched for wireless injection attacks, the first point release of Kali Linux introduces amazing hardware support, especially support for NVIDIA Optimus, better wireless driver support, updated packages (virtualbox-tools, VMWare-tools, openvm-tools), updated wallpapers and grub screens, numerous bugfixes, and overall performance improvements, as noted in the official announcement.
“For us, this is a real milestone as this release epitomizes the benefits of our move from BackTrack to Kali Linux over two years ago. As we look at a now mature Kali, we see a versatile, flexible Linux distribution, rich with useful security and penetration testing related features, running on all sorts of weird and wonderful ARM hardware.”
64 and 32-bit Live images of Kali Linux 1.1.0 are now available for download from Softpedia. Keep in mind though that Kali Linux is a rolling-release distro and you don’t have to download these ISOs to keep your installation up-to-date, just make sure you have all the updates installed.