Kali Linux System Requirements

What is Kali Linux?

Kali Linux is formerly known as BackTrack Linux. Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution that is maintained by Offensive Security. Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns develop it. Kali Linux is a specially built operating system for Penetration testers, network analysts, and others who work in the field of cyber security and analysis. Kali.org is the official website of Kali Linux. It became well-known after appearing in the Mr Robot series. It is not intended for general purposes; it is intended for professionals or individuals familiar with Linux/Kali.

Kali Linux has a large number of tools targeted towards numerous information security tasks, like Reverse Engineering, Security Research, Penetration Testing, and Computer Forensics. It is a multi-platform solution, accessible and freely available to information security experts and hobbyists.

Kali Linux System Requirements

Kali Linux is a Linux distribution aimed geared towards ethical hackers, penetration testers and cyber security experts. If you are consider installing it on your PC but want to know the minimum or recommended system requirements beforehand, this can help you out.

The kali developers don't provide us with much official information related to recommended system specifications. Using the restricted information they provide us and filling in the rest of the gaps ourselves, the following is the list of recommended system requirements for running Kali using the default Xfce desktop environment and the kali-Linux-default meta-package, which comprises most of the common tools.

• 2 GB of RAM
• 20 GB of disk space
• Broadband internet connection
• High-definition graphics card and monitor
• Broadband internet connection

The first two requirements in the list above are what kali suggests. The rest of the specifications are based on personal experience and requirements from other Linux distributions.

With this specification, you will be able to use all of Kali's capabilities and have a responsive operating system capable of executing multiple processes simultaneously.

Password cracking and other ethical hacking tasks are known for consuming a lot of CPU power; therefore, using more powerful components will automatically yield a better result.

Kali can run on extremely low-end specs, but depending on what we want to accomplish with it, we might require a more powerful computer. The Kali developers don't provide much official information, but they do specify the following as minimum system requirements.

• 2 GB of disk space
• 128 M (512 MB optimally) of RAM.

According to the low requirements listed, a 1 GHz CPU should be sufficient and skipping the desktop environment decreases the load. For such as build, we have to use SSH or the terminal to interact with our system.