A few of them are listed below, more can be found on the official website. There are multiple Tools in Parrot OS which are specially designed for Security Researchers and are related to penetration testing. Install any software and DE with this edition. It is currently available for Raspberry Pi devices. Parrot ARM is a lightweight Parrot release for embedded systems. The system can also be used as a starting point to build a system with a custom set of security tools. Parrot Home also includes programs to chat privately with people, encrypt documents, or browse the internet anonymously. The distribution is useful for daily work. Parrot Home is the base edition of Parrot designed for daily use, and it targets regular users who need a 'lightweight' system on their laptops or workstations. It is designed for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and mitigation, computer forensics and anonymous web browsing. Parrot is intended to provide a suite of penetration testing tools to be used for attack mitigation, security research, forensics, and vulnerability assessment. Parrot has multiple editions that are based upon Debian, with various desktop environments available. In August 2020, the Parrot OS officially supports Lightweight Xfce Desktop.

Īs of January 21st, 2019, the Parrot team has begun to phase out the development of their 32-bit ( i386) ISO. In June 2017, the Parrot Team announced they were considering to change from Debian to Devuan, mainly because of problems with systemd. Moreover, the project is available for ARMv7 ( armhf) architectures. The system is certified to run on devices which have a minimum of 256MB of RAM, and it is suitable for both 32-bit ( i386) and 64-bit ( amd64) processor architectures. The desktop environments is MATE, and the default display manager is LightDM. It follows a rolling release development model.

Parrot is based on Debian's 'testing' branch, with a Linux 5.10 kernel.

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