If you want to think out of the ordinary, what about a Kali Linux installation with the i3 Window Manager? Now there's an interesting thought. But you would have to be really dedicated and really determined to do that. It might also be interesting if you want to start from an absolute bare-bones system and carefully pick and choose the utilities that you want to install. So the bottom line on the Kali Mini distribution is that it can be useful if you want to install from a really, really small image (does anybody remember mini-CD or even credit-card CD media?). The list includes Gnome, Xfce, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE and LXDE. In fact, at first glance (or on the first pass through this installer), you might think there is even more flexibility here, because as you go through the installation you will be asked to choose the desktop package(s) you want. Again, this means that you can create a system which contains exactly what you want - any only what you want. The installation process is similar to the Full and Light versions, but this version installs absolutely none of the security/forensic/pentest utilities - not even the few that were included in the Light base distribution. To get around this limitation, I got out the Lenovo T400 which I recently replaced on my desktop, so I was able to load and test it that way.īooting the Mini ISO, the only option you get is Install - there are no Live options this time. That doesn't help me much any more, because almost everything I have around here is UEFI, and I don't want to use Legacy Boot. The good news is that it works just fine on MBR systems. The bad news is that this image will not boot on UEFI firmware systems, unless you change the system to 'Legacy Boot' mode. It is a net-install image, which means that you must have an internet connection to install it, because that tiny ISO only contains enough to boot and run the installer, it has to get absolutely everything else from the network. The ISO image is only 32MB - that is really small. The Kali Mini distribution is basically the same as the Debian 'tiny' distribution (with the repositories changed, of course). Moving on to the Mini distribution, the news is not quite as good, at least initially. OK, that's enough about the Kali Light distribution. When it was finished, I finally had all of the same menu categories that the Gnome 3 version had. ![]() Installing the full package took a pretty good bit of time, more than 30 minutes on my Acer Aspire E11. ![]() ![]() That will bring in another 1,200 or so packages and use an additional 3GB of disk space. If you want to get the complete contents of the full distribution installed into this Xfce desktop version, use apt-get install kali-linux-full. That is still nowhere near what is included in the full distribution, though.
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