A Quick Look At Parrot OS Home Edition 

Thanks! And awesome work on this distro! :D

As Parrot OS use btrfs, does it give the Subvolumes for timeshift snapshots / grub-btrfs or Snapper by default?

is your website down? I wanted to download the iso but I can't connect to parrotsec

@@knife1406 If you have DHT enabled in your client you can get it using this hash: 2df56b4265dea9600ba34209ccec80e6ba36b105

@@knife1406 ​ @knife1406 Here is a link to the torrent for Parrot 6.1 Home: download.parrot.sh/parrot/iso/6.1/Parrot-home-6.1_amd64.iso.torrent And here is the torrent for Parrot 6.1 Security: download.parrot.sh/parrot/iso/6.1/Parrot-security-6.1_amd64.iso.torrent

best choice ever

thanks for the heads-up

Until you have seizures.

It show how well that artist did his/her job. I would also time it with zoom in and out so that it would leave the impression that your monitor is cycling through display resolutions. And I would end that video with screenshot of text mode where X11 server is complaining that it can't start up due to configuration error or maybe randomly choose to end it with screenshot of BSOD if date is 1st april.

in the future we would like to migrate to kde, because unfortunately there aren't many mature desktop environments still under active development mate and xfce are old, dead and have always lacked a vision, but have been a good lightweight alternative to the gnome madness so far

I prefer having a single panel at the bottom. Besides, that, at least in theory, helps make those leaving Windows for Linux feel more at home. And that's how I do it on Xfce on my desktop box and in Openbox on my laptop. And that, in fact is how I've done it in a family-friendly web-filtered distro I've created called F3OS (the Free Family-Friendly Operating System). But you are, of course, free to rearrange it to your personal tastes -- there's no need for you to be hateful toward those of us who prefer a single panel.

@@palinurosec9154 Dead being no longer supported? Or not filling out new features?

@@palinurosec9154 If you switch to kde, I would immediately start to use parrot

@@svd348 new features have not been implemented since ages, memory holes still occur from time to time, some components are poorly made (like the inconsistent icon sizes on the panel widgets) and the only work being done on the mate project is making sure it works on newer versions of the supported distros

Ubuntu was originally Debian based, so probably not that big of a leap.

parrot provides all the good parts of debian by solving its usability issues

the installer installs whatever is shipped with the iso file, i think the netinstallers are what you are interested in. they install a base system for you and then allow you to choose what to add on top of it

@@palinurosec9154 - True, but it also depends on what the distro gives for choices. Not sure if Fedora still has it, but they did have Hyprland in their repository, making it relatively easy to add on after installation. It's not as optimal as having the option during install, but at least it's an option. Either that, or have a choice of ISOs pre-built with the desktop/window managers to choose from. But, I get it. Some distros prefer to only develop on their flagship, with setting they prefer, or consider most optimal to them. Plus, there are lots of distros to choose from that at least one might work out for you. Or, you can build your own.That's what makes Linux great, having the options and freedom to find out what works best for you.

Yeah, well, no one wants to use Brave as their default because Chromium-based 🙄 and everything else is based on the engine FF uses anyway.

Performance wise is also very good considering the iso size

I want to like bookworm, but it just doesn't work well for me.

I have tried it many times since Linux kernel 2.2 and it never worked well for me. Devuan is Debian done right for me. Parrot looks good too.

@@_sneer_ - Mageia is one I'd like to try again, but I'm waiting to try out version 10. Considering how their releases go, it could be out as soon as Aug., or as late as Nov.

i would like debian testing but i cant make it work

THIS

I have a strategy with updates - a little patience goes a long way

Lmao - don't we all tho?

I think it's for screen recording

@@wewantthefunk73 I have no problem passing the vga/displayport/HDMI through a converter and a $15 usb capture device or my more expensive capture device. I use these to make install/setup/operation guides for myself on things I may only need to fool with every 3-5 years like setting up XCP-NG from scratch. When you make your living do this type of stuff, these are the tools to do the job and you buy them. Look at Haiku, does it really work on real hardware? I gave up on it a long time ago because I wanted it on real hardware and never succeeded on any hardware I owned, but it ran great in a VM. ReactOS being another I stopped fooling with for the same reason.

gnome has other severe issues, kde would probably be a better alternative

programmer design

They have a KDE version.

So you think a newer graphics server still in heavy development is more secure than "tried and tested" Xorg then? Explain the logic... ...and please don't give me cr*p about "bloated Xorg code". When someone can show me Wayland running on an IBM Thinkpad T22 from 2002 with a Pentium III CPU and 512MB RAM (which Xorg runs happily on), you can maybe then start talking about bloated code. Until then, shut up about it.

the top one is the old gnome menu that supports nested hierarchical submenus which is important for the pentesting nature of the distro, but it doesn't support searching the bottom one is a messy attempt by the mate project to provide a more modern menu, it supports search, favorites etc, but it doesn't support nested application categories unfortunately the best parrot can do is to take what the open source world has developed so far and put it together for the users, that's why a future switch to kde has always been a hot topic among the project devs

@@palinurosec9154 Thanks for the information, I believe that they should switch to Kde or something as fast as possible because this gives a very bad image of their os and linux in general to the world.

Do you work at parrot security ?​@@palinurosec9154

This is based upon Debian Stable, which means it is fairly old. You get much ‘newer’ firmware and drivers when you install Fedora or Arch, for your ‘new’ Lenovo laptop WiFi chip. EDIT: Sorry, my bad. I thought I saw that it’s based upon Debian Stable. But if this is based on Debian Testing as Derek said at the end of the video, then I’m not too sure what to think. Other than, what’s in Debian Testing still might be older than what’s in Fedora or Arch.

@@jimmyrichards5595 parrot is based on debian stable, but backports a huge pile of software, especially drivers and the kernel. the video itself shows the latest linux 6.9 kernel released few days ago, while debian stable still ships 6.1 or something. using parrot means having a stable system, but not at the price of staying behind, at least on the most important things if the wifi doesn't work on a specific laptop, especially a recent model, then there is nothing wrong with parrot, debian or any other linux distro that won't work by default. but it is a faulth of the maufacturer that took the choice to include an incompatible wireless chipset and not release a driver for linux the best you can do is to search online for someone working on a reverse engineered driver for that model and offer them a coffee to support their work, and a driver will magically appear in few weeks or months, and be sure that, once notified, we will rush to include it by default into parrot

​@@jimmyrichards5595 You're right. It's based on Debian Stable

​@@jimmyrichards5595 It is based on Debian stable, see the pinned comment that's from the devs. _"we're based on Debian stable, but we always do some updates ourselves to have the distribution stable but also up-to-date"_

does a cool boot screen really look that bad on a pentesting distro?

@@palinurosec9154 All I'm saying is that if I knew it was on purpose, I'd be totally down with it. But Distro-hoppin' I'd be warry.

4K is a gimmick for people with too much disposable income - unless you're projecting images onto the side of a building or on the underside of a dome over your head. Personally, my eyes have never told my brain "we need more pixels on screen in order to maintain your attention span". 4K is for millennials looking for any excuse to not pay attention to something they should be learning from.

Funny how he makes a deal of not using auto-login with a password that secure 😂

I guess dt 😂

Or "td", maybe)

what do you mean?

But ubuntu and fedora has newer packages. That's a BIG difference. Having same kernel, init, desktop environment and softwares doesn't matter.

@@rishirajsaikia1323 that's why a lot of software gets backported by the team instead of waiting for a new debian release

parrot is not rolling release, it just gets many backport updates to not let the most important programs age

snapshots are not backups, and viceversa, but both are useful for your disaster recovery plan i suggest you to install timeshift and setup automatic snapshotting at every system reboot, and automatically delete old snapshots (keep the past 2 or 3 snapshots only) and then have a remote server where to periodically push your stuff i don't personally like NFS, and what i do instead is to simply leave ssh open and use rsync over ssh to push my changes to a remote server (with its own shapshots enabled). i also use rclone to do encrypted backups on some s3 buckets, and such tools can also be used to incrementally sync stuff things offline to a phisically attached backup drive

@@palinurosec9154 My mistake about the rolling release. Understood now.

@@palinurosec9154 btrfs snapshots are not backups. But, rsnapshot backups are rsync based, and are true backups. I will look at timeshift. Thank you. I'm playing with SSH now. Will probably flesh that out vs. NFS.