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Kali Linux History

Kali Linux traces its origins back to several key developments in operating systems starting in the 1960s including Multics OS, Unix, and BSD. It was built on GNU/Linux, an operating system developed in the 1980s and 1990s combining the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel. Kali Linux was first released in 2013 by Offensive Security as a penetration testing and ethical hacking platform built on Debian GNU/Linux.

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Kali Linux History

Kali Linux traces its origins back to several key developments in operating systems starting in the 1960s including Multics OS, Unix, and BSD. It was built on GNU/Linux, an operating system developed in the 1980s and 1990s combining the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel. Kali Linux was first released in 2013 by Offensive Security as a penetration testing and ethical hacking platform built on Debian GNU/Linux.

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Kali Linux History


- (Bell Labs – General Electric – MIT)  Multics OS (Multiplexed
Information and Computing Service), (1965 – 2000), Assembly (low Level) –
Bad Performance

- B Language 1969 - Bell Labs – Restructure Multics to Be written in B


language  UNICS

- C Language (K&R) - 1972 - Bell Labs Used it to Write Unix


Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson

BSD “Berkeley Software Distribution” Operating System, 1977 - Written in


C language – Research Group in California University.

NDA License “None Distribution Agreement”


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Sun Solaris
IBM AIX
HP HP/Unix

GNU OS– 1984, GNU’s Not Unix - Richard Stallman – Source code is free.
Free Software Foundation (FSF) – General Public License (GPL) – Is a
collection of applications, libraries and games. – He was working on developing
a Kernel

1987 – Minix (Mini-Unix) OS – Andre Tanenbaum – for Educational Purpose

1991 – Linus Torvalds - Finnish – Kernel – Linux – different from UNIX by


being Multi-Tasking , Multi-user system, it was used to replace the Kernel of
Minix OS. --- GNU/Linux
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Many Companies start using GNU/Linux:

- Debian – 1993

Kali Linux Development Process started in 2012 – Released in 2013 by


Offensive Security.

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