for pentesting and other tasks, Kali (built on debian) is the most useful piece of kit for pentesters and ethical hackers with over 600 inbuilt tools, and although I wont be jumping into using the tools just yet, I thought I had better know how to spin up a VM and get Kali running.
I have an old 2012 17inch macbook that I bought in 2018 and replaced the hard drive with a Samsung ssd and its been running smoothly ever since. Due to the age of the hardware, I already knew I would run into incompatibility issues (had to use virtual box 6.1 and an old kali install), but its all part of the learning as in the real world we are always working with legacy or old devices.
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