{"id":22812,"date":"2021-07-24T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2021-07-24T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T21:23:15","slug":"top-31-free-open-source-tools-for-operating-systems-systems-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/top-31-free-open-source-tools-for-operating-systems-systems-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 31 free open source tools for Operating Systems Systems\/Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Operating Systems<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Slackware<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; the most &#8220;Unix-like&#8221; Linux distribution.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenBSD<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hardenedbsd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HardenedBSD<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; HardenedBSD aims to implement innovative exploit mitigation and security solutions.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kali.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kali Linux<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parrotsec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Parrot Security OS<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; cyber security GNU\/Linux environment.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Backbox Linux<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; penetration test and security assessment oriented Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blackarch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BlackArch<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; is an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentoo.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pentoo<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; is a security-focused livecd based on Gentoo.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/securityonion.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Security Onion<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Linux distro for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tails.boum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tails<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vedetta-com\/vedetta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>vedetta<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; OpenBSD router boilerplate.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qubes-os.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Qubes OS<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; is a security-oriented OS that uses Xen-based virtualization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operating Systems &nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;Slackware&nbsp;&#8211; the most &#8220;Unix-like&#8221; Linux distribution.&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;OpenBSD&nbsp;&#8211; multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system.&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;HardenedBSD&nbsp;&#8211; HardenedBSD aims to implement innovative exploit mitigation and security solutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;\ud83d\udd38&nbsp;Kali Linux&nbsp;&#8211; Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22813,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions\/22813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}