FHS compliant: Kali adheres to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, allowing Linux users to locate binaries, support files, libraries, etc., easily.

The source code that goes into Kali Linux is available for anyone who wants to tweak or rebuild packages to suit their specific needs.

Open source Git tree: We are committed to the open-source development model, and our development tree is available for all to see.

You will never, ever have to pay for Kali Linux.

Free (as in beer) and always will be: Kali Linux, like BackTrack, is completely free of charge and always will be.

Details on what’s included are on the Kali Tools site.

More than 600 penetration testing tools included: After reviewing every tool included in BackTrack, we eliminated many tools that either did not work or duplicated other tools that provided the same or similar functionality.

Swap: 3300448 0 echo Free RAM space changes caused by creating and deleting a 100MB+ file.Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics, and Reverse Engineering. # RAM usage (baseline) after deleting said 710-megabyte file: 3,168,480,000 bytes free # RAM usage after creating a 710-megabyte file: 2,575,796,000 bytes free # RAM usage (baseline) after deleting said 393-megabyte file: 3,148,912,000 bytes free # RAM usage after creating a 393-megabyte file: 2,769,504,000 bytes free Total used free shared buff/cache available The guy mentions how Linux liveboot USBs store all files in RAM (if persistence is turned off) this is also true with Lubuntu, proof: So far, I watched this vid to about 8:30 - it was interesting.

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