Linux Format

Parrot Home 3.11

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It seems that most security-focused distros, such as Parrot and Kali, come with huge collection­s of software that make them too big to fit on our DVDs without excluding everything else. That’s certainly true of Parrot Security and is more a testament to the amount of high-quality security software available for Linux than any criticism of the distros. Fortunatel­y, Parrot also produces its Home edition in a more manageable size, and so that’s what we have for you this month.

This is the only one of this month’s distros that is still available in a 32-bit version for old hardware. Tails recently dropped 32-bit support, so we only have the 64-bit version on the DVD. Parrot Home will run on both 32- and 64 bit-systems and as a live distro to try it out that is perfectly fine.

If you decide you like it enough to install it in anger and you have a 64-bit computer (and sufficient bandwidth) then you may be better served by grabbing the 64-bit ISO. Either way, you’ll need to copy the ISO to a DVD or USB stick. The live system runs directly from the DVD, but the installer has problems when used that way.

Login details: username user; password: live.

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While being focused on security software, Parrot can be used as a general purposedes­ktop distro.

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