EvilZone

Thanks for the books.

But what I don't understand is why people think so highly of Kali? It's just a debian distro and the tools that you want you can just clone them off github anyway.

The way I see it there's nothing special about Kali Linux, perhaps for the beginners out there Kali is easier to work with.

From my experience of debian (long time ago), although I must say lot of stuff is stable but I always felt like my choices were kind of limited (usually debian distros are not so customisable like Arch/ Gentoo, etc.) and also I couldn't get my hands on the latest bleeding edge software. You have to wait for months to get the latest updates.

Bleeding edge software does matter, let's say a new kernel came out and you wanna try it...it's kind of a nightmare trying to figure out how to make it work without breaking compatibility with other stuff in debian.

TLDR; Not saying Kali is bad but don't think that installing Kali will suddenly make you a super 1337 hacker or that it's the only thing out there. In my opinion the author of ebooks these days use the catchy phrase "Kali Linux" on pretty much everything as  a marketing strategy to get people into buying their books. It's certainly working for them so far.

I did a reddit post for installing kali sana tools ontop of crunchbang++
https://www.reddit.com/r/crunchbangplusplus/comments/3hrere/cbppkali_add_kali_2_pentest_tools/

Much better performance

To summarize:

From a fresh install of CBPP:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listAdd at bottom:

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#Kali 2
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-freeCTRL + x to quit, y to save, ENTER

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kali-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kali-linux-all* (NOTE: Takes a while to d/l and setup all the kali packages, be prepared to press ENTER a few times to accept defaults)
(I keep mysql passwords blank)
(Path to metasploit framework - for veil setup: /usr/share/metasploit-framework/ )

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade(NOTE: this ^ will install Kali Kernel 4)
-To get kali menu in right click OB-menu:

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sudo apt-get install openbox-menu

sudo apt-get install lxpanel

sudo ln -s /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu


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geany ~/.config/openbox/menu.xmlAdd:

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<menu execute="openbox-menu" id="desktop-app-menu" label="Kali Menu"/>*(NOTE: I added it after </item> Line #52 // You can pretty much add it anywhere within reason) (You can change 'Kali Menu' to whatever, just note that because of the amount of tools, it will take a few seconds (dep on CPU) for the menu to appear.)
Save and exit geany.

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openbox --restart(or logout and log back in)
*Note: Before you launch msfconsole or armitage, you will need to run:

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sudo msfdb initFin.
Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/yZW7vEC.png




Ill be remastering when I am done customizing my own.
I can post the ISO if anyone wants to request it.

Have performance (graphic) issues with it, too. This isn't the case with Kali Linux 1. But I don't think it's "too modern" (don't even really know what you mean by that, tbh. Do you mean you don't like Gnome? You're not alone then ).