Kali Linux

Lord Nikon6 said:
this is a good option, very fast distros
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I'm currently running Manjaro Openbox-Lite and I love it. Comes with minimal apps but the base system is very nice. Also have #! Waldorf (Wheezy) but I don;t like it as much as Statler. Waldorf feels slow and bloated. Other thing is I love Arch and Manjaro fits that bill nicely and a bit more stable but you end up with 'slightly' older packages. Anyway it runs like a demon on my old laptop.

Busy downloading Kali Linux now to test out, think it would a nice to have on a usb stick.
 
ponder said:
I'm currently running Manjaro Openbox-Lite and I love it. Comes with minimal apps but the base system is very nice. Also have #! Waldorf (Wheezy) but I don;t like it as much as Statler. Waldorf feels slow and bloated. Other thing is I love Arch and Manjaro fits that bill nicely and a bit more stable but you end up with 'slightly' older packages. Anyway it runs like a demon on my old laptop.

Busy downloading Kali Linux now to test out, think it would a nice to have on a usb stick.
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yeh, it should run brilliantly on notebooks. Kali will run well on a flash drive. Had some issues running the live disc on my laptop, trouble with the intel gpu drivers I reckon
 
Ok kali does not work on my laptop as it does not have cpu with pae support....
 
Busy downloading 1.0.4 and will see if I can rebuilt the iso with the i486 kernel parameter so it work on non-pae cpus.
 
ponder said:
Busy downloading 1.0.4 and will see if I can rebuilt the iso with the i486 kernel parameter so it work on non-pae cpus.
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Hope you get it sorted. It is a decent distro. It does however seem to be a bit resource hungry when using a gui.
 
Lord Nikon6 said:
Hope you get it sorted. It is a decent distro. It does however seem to be a bit resource hungry when using a gui.
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Ta. That's the other thing I would like to 'fix', remove the Gnome they are using and add XFCE & Openbox to the mix. Have not gotten around to it yet but I have booted it on my desktop and it looks pretty cool.

Why would they pick Gnome for such a distro?
 
ponder said:
Ta. That's the other thing I would like to 'fix', remove the Gnome they are using and add XFCE & Openbox to the mix. Have not gotten around to it yet but I have booted it on my desktop and it looks pretty cool.

Why would they pick Gnome for such a distro?
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Well, back when it was still backtrack they always used gnome, but that was gnome 2, which was stable and worked fine on lower end machines and notebooks. I suppose they don't want to break the ties. It runs dodgey on my I5 notebook with 6 Gb of RAM, which I find quite strange. Loaded KDE instead, always been a KDE fan. tbh, the gui looks nice, but I mostly use shell with these distros. Xfce would be the best to run this in I suppose.
 
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