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Kali Linux 2018.2 (April, 2018) Desktop (32-bit, 64-bit) ISO Disk Image Free Download

The Kali Linux 2018.2 was released on April 30, 2018, it was preceded by version 2018.1 and was available for desktop / laptop computers. It is available to install 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86-64) versions, and the choice of various desktop environments such as KDE, LXDE and MATE is available in different ISO image files. Cinnamon is the default desktop environment. Compared to the previous release, this Kali linux version includes some new tools, features and bug fixes, such as Linux Kernel 4.15.0, GNOME 3.28.0, access to Metasploit scripts made easier, some existing packages in Kali Linux have received updates, etc.

General information from Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a free and open source Linux operating system specially designed for penetration testing (computer system security) using a wide range of available security tools. According to the Kali Linux tools directory, there are hundreds of pre-installed security tools in the operating system that allows attacking any computer system, gathering information, forensics, reverse engineering, crack passwords, snifting and snipfing etc. As soon as you launch a tool, you do not need you to write a custom program and programming code to attack, you can read the instructions in the terminal window and type the command. Most tools in Kali Linux work through the command line, while some of them also have graphical user interfaces such as Wireshark, Burp suite and Armitage.

Specification

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System requirements

• 32-bit (IA-32) processor or higher.
• 20 GB disk space.
• 1 GB RAM.
• CD/DVD drive or a USB Drive.
• Internet connectivity (optional).

Installation instructions

Starting installer in PC (via USB)

Follow the steps given below:

1. Download the Kali Linux 2018.2 ISO image file from the download section.
2. Install a USB bootable creation software (such as Rufus) on your Windows PC.
3. Plug in a USB flash drive (at least 8-16 GB of space) with your PC.
4. Open the USB bootable creation software, and select the ISO image file of Kali Linux 2018.2, and start the process.
5. As soon as done, plug the bootable USB into a system where you want to install Kali Linux 2018.2.
6. Restart the computer.
7. Press the boot device menu key and select USB to boot first.
8. Select USB device and start the Kali Linux 2018.2 installer.

Starting installer in VMware

1. Download the Kali Linux 2018.2 ISO image file from the download section.
2. Launch the VMware Player, and start creating a new virtual machine.
3. Select the ISO image file of Kali Linux 2018.2, and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
4. Start the virtual machine and go to the Kali Linux 2018.2 installer.

Starting installer in VirtualBox

1. Download the Kali Linux 2018.2 image file from the download section.
2. Launch the Virtualbox application on your computer, and start creating a new virtual machine.
3. Select Kali Linux and use VM configuration according to the system requirements.
4. Start VM and when it asks to select the Host Drive, then select the downloaded Kali Linux 2018.2 ISO file in step 1.

Last step

As soon as you go to the Kali Linux boot menu, follow the steps given below:

1. Select ‘Graphical Install’ and press Enter.
2. Choose language, region, keyboard layout, etc.
3. Follow the on-screen installation.
4. Set the Root Password.
5. For clean installation, select ‘Guided — use entire disk’ in the disk partition screen. ( Warning — Clean installation will remove all other operating systems installed on the computer)
6. Go ahead and choose ‘yes’ when it asks for format the partition.
7. Wait while Kali Linux is installed on your computer.
8. As soon as the process is complete, restart the system.
9. Log in to Kali Linux and enjoy the operating system.

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We release fresh images of Kali Linux every few months as a result of accumulative fixes, major security updates, installer updates, etc.

Please see bugs.kali.org/changelog_page.php for the most up-to-date log of changes.

• Kali 2023.2a — 6th June, 2023 — Minor release, fixes UEFI issue in base-images, and fix sound in the Hyper-V images.
• Kali 2023.2 — 30th May, 2023 — The second 2023 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 6.1.0, Xfce 4.18.2.
• Kali 2023.1 — 13th March, 2023 — 10 Years! The first 2023 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 6.1.0, Xfce 4.18.1.

• Kali 2022.4 — 6th December, 2022 — The fourth 2022 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 6.0.0, Xfce 4.16.5.
• Kali 2022.3 — 9th August, 2022 — The third 2022 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.18.0, Xfce 4.16.4.
• Kali 2022.2 — 16th May, 2022 — The second 2022 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.16.0, Xfce 4.16.4.
• Kali 2022.1 — 14th February, 2022 — The first 2022 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.15.0, Xfce 4.16.3.

• Kali 2021.4a — 23rd December, 2021 — Minor release, fixes audio issues in base-images.
• Kali 2021.4 — 9th December, 2021 — The fourth 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.14.0, Xfce 4.16.3.
• Kali 2021.3a — 21st October, 2021 — No fanfare release, fixes minor issues with base-images (missing firmware, size and bug with USB encrypted persistence).
• Kali 2021.3 — 14th September, 2021 — The third 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.3.
• Kali 2021.2 — 1st June, 2021 — The second 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.2.
• Kali 2021.1 — 24th February, 2021 — The first 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.1.

• Kali 2020.4 — 18th November, 2020 — The fourth 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.9.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
• Kali 2020.3 — 18th August, 2020 — The third 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.7.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
• Kali 2020.2 — 12th May, 2020 — The second 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.5.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
• Kali 2020.1b — 18th March, 2020 — Minor bug fix release (Offline setup issue).
• Kali 2020.1a — 13th February, 2020 — Minor bug fix release (xserver-xorg issue).
• Kali 2020.1 — 28th January, 2020 — The first 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.4.0, Xfce 4.14.2.

• Kali 2019.4 — 26th November, 2019 — The fourth 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.3.9, Xfce 4.14.1.
• Kali 2019.3 — 2nd September, 2019 — The third 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.2.9, GNOME 3.30.2.
• Kali 2019.2 — 21st May, 2019 — The second 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.19.28, GNOME 3.30.2.
• Kali 2019.1a — 4th March, 2019 — Minor bug fix release (VMware Installer).
• Kali 2019.1 — 18th February, 2019 — The first 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.19.13, GNOME 3.30.2.

• Kali 2018.4 — 29th October, 2018 — The fourth 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.18.0, GNOME 3.30.1.
• Kali 2018.3 — 27th August, 2018 — The third 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.17.0, GNOME 3.28.2.
• Kali 2018.2 — 30th April, 2018 — The second 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.15.0, GNOME 3.28.0.
• Kali 2018.1 — 6th February, 2018 — The first 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.14.12, GNOME 3.26.2.

• Kali 2017.3 — 21st November, 2017 — The third 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.13, GNOME 3.26.
• Kali 2017.2 — 20th September, 2017 — The second 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.12, GNOME 3.25.
• Kali 2017.1 — 25th April, 2017 — The first 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.9, GNOME 3.22.

• Kali 2016.2 — 31st August, 2016 — The second 2016 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.6, GNOME 3.20.2.
• Kali 2016.1 — 21st January, 2016 — The first Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.3, GNOME 3.18.

• Kali 2.0 — 11th August, 2015 — Major release, “safi”, now a rolling distribution, major UI changes.

• Kali 1.1.0a — 13th March, 2015 — No fanfare release, fixing kernel ABI inconsistencies in the installers.
• Kali 1.1.0 — 9th Febuary, 2015 — First dot release in 2 years. New kernel, new tools and updates.
• Kali 1.0.9a — 6th October, 2014 — Security bug fix release covering shellshock and Debian apt vulnerabilities.
• Kali 1.0.9 — 25th August, 2014 — Bug fix release including installer and a set of tool updates and package fixes.
• Kali 1.0.8 — 22nd July, 2014 — EFI Support for our) and package fixes.
• Kali 1.0.7 — 27th May, 2014 — Kernel 3.14, tool updates, package fixes, Kali Live Encrypted USB Persistence.
• Kali 1.0.6 — 9th January, 2014 — Kernel 3.12, cryptsetup nuke option, Amazon AMI, ARM build scripts.
• Kali 1.0.5 — 5th September, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. LVM Encrypted installs, Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools.
• Kali 1.0.4 — 25th July, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. Penetration testing tool additions and updates.
• Kali 1.0.3 — 26th April, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. New accessibility features. Added live Desktop installer.
• Kali 1.0.2 — 27th March, 2013 — Minor Bug fix release and update roll-up.
• Kali 1.0.1 — 14th March, 2013 — Minor Bug fix release (USB Keyboard).
• Kali 1.0.0 — 13th March, 2013 — Initial release, “moto”.

• Legacy Operating Systems releases.

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Kali Linux is based on years of knowledge and experience of building a pentestion testing Operating Systems, which has spanned over multiple previous projects. During all these project’s life-time, there has been only a few different developers, as the team has always been small. As a result, Kali has been years in the making and has come a long way.

The first project was called Whoppix, which stood for WhiteHat Knoppix. As can be inferred from the name, it was based on Knoppix for the underlining OS. Whoppix had releases ranging from v2.0 to v2.7.

This made way for the next project, WHAX (or the long hand, WhiteHat Slax). The name change was because the base OS changed from Knoppix to Slax. WHAX started at v3, as a nod towards it carrying on from Whoppix.

There was a similar OS being produced at the same time, Auditor Security Collection (often getting shorted to just Auditor), once again using Knoppix, and efforts were combined (with WHAX) to produce BackTrack. BackTrack was based on Slackware from v1 to v3, but switched to Ubuntu later on with v4 to v5.

Using the experience gained from all of this, Kali Linux came after BackTrack in 2013. Kali started off using Debian stable as the engine under the hood before moving to Debian testing when Kali became a rolling OS.

Below is a rough overview of how Kali Linux came to be:

Date	Project Released	Base OS
2004-August-30	Whoppix v2	Knoppix
2005-July-17	WHAX v3	Slax
2006-May-26	BackTrack v1	Slackware Live CD 10.2.0
2007-March-06	BackTrack v2	Slackware Live CD 11.0.0
2008-June-19	BackTrack v3	Slackware Live CD 12.0.0
2010-January-09	BackTrack v4 (Pwnsauce)	Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
2011-May-10	BackTrack v5 (Revolution)	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
2013-March-13	Kali Linux v1 (Moto)	Debian 7 (Wheezy)
2015-August-11	Kali Linux v2 (Sana)	Debian 8 (Jessie)
2016-January-16	Kali Linux Rolling	Debian Testing

This is only the major releases, there were minor ones to address bug fixes, releases, and tools updates.

Updated on: 2023-Mar-10
Author: g0tmi1k

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