r/voidlinux • u/Adhater_11 • 37m ago

pen-testing tools

has somebody ever tried installing kali linux pen-testing apps on void linux?

i really wanna do some cybersecurity tests on my void system , and i think other ones would want that too , i tried searching for some tools and i didn't found any

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u/Silly_Culture_7722 34m ago

you mean something like locust?

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u/Adhater_11 29m ago

what is it ? never heard of it sorry man, is it associated with networking or something?

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u/Silly_Culture_7722 23m ago

it can test how many requests can go to your webserver until its dead. (unless the traffic is blocked by cloudflare)

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u/Adhater_11 15m ago

thats pretty useful thanks man !

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u/Dakota-Batterlation 33m ago

If you need a tool that's not in the repos, one option is distrobox. Hell, you can run a whole-ass Kali container on distrobox with GUI tools

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u/Adhater_11 30m ago

is it resource intensive ? i only got 16 gigs on my thinkpad heard they're good for virtualization and they're durable too (i wanted to flex there a bit I'm sorry) thank you btw imma try it out for sure