14 DAY TRIAL // Kali Linux is a Linux distribution that is built to do penetration testing and digital forensics, among other things. Its developers have been pretty quiet in the past few months, but now they've announced the release date for version 2.0 of the operating system.
Some of the users might not be familiar with the name Kali Linux, but they should know that it's built by the same devs who used to make the famous Backtrack distro. In fact, we can consider Kali Linux as a spiritual successor of Backtrack; the latter one is no longer supported for a very long time, despite still being downloaded and used.
"We've been awfully quiet lately, which usually means something is brewing below the surface. In the past few months, we’ve been working feverishly on our next generation of Kali Linux, and we're really happy with how it’s looking so far. There're a lot of new features and interesting new aspects to this updated version, however, we'll keep our mouths shut until we're done with the release," wrote the devs in a short blog post.
They also informed us that Kali 2.0 Dojo would be made available at the Black Hat & DEF CON Las Vegas conference, which will take place in 6-9 August. In the mean time, you can get Kali Linux 1.1.0 from Softpedia and give it a spin.