We took a good hard look at the usage of Kali, what images are actually downloaded, how they are put to use, and so on. If you are brave enough to try it, you may wish to switch the branch from “rolling” to “kali-last-snapshot” to try and be more stable. But its a helping hand for the people who are familiar with Kali enough.īecause we are unable to test for that usage pattern and we don’t want the influx of bug reports that would come with it. There wasn’t anything really stopping you before, we just don’t encourage it. So with this, should you use Kali as your daily driver, as the primary OS? It’s up to you. As a result, if you notice any issues with this, please do let us know on the bug tracker. As you can imagine, this is a very large change, with years of history behind it. The default user account is now a standard, unprivileged, user.įor more of the reasons behind this switch, please see our previous blog post. We are no longer using the superuser account, root, as default in Kali 2020.1. Throughout the history of Kali (and its predecessors BackTrack, WHAX, and Whoppix), the default credentials have been root/toor. Improvements to theme & kali-undercover.The following is a brief feature summary for this release:

We are here to kick off our first release of the decade, with Kali Linux 2020.1! Available for immediate download.

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