Owl OS 1.0 "Athena" - a free Debian-based pentest distro

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Hey 👋 I'm Khaled, red teamer, and I've been building Owl OS, a free Debian 12 based distro for pentesting and privacy work.

It ships 275+ of my own tools plus the usual stuff (Metasploit, nmap, sqlmap, Ghidra), Cinnamon desktop, kernel 6.12, and a Hidden Mode for privacy.

Launching Nov 21. Some of the tools are open source here: https://github.com/owlsecx

ISO: https://owlsec.org/downloads/owl.iso
SHA256: 828c6405873b0728dac70099d154dd33e4fae0c76bf892511e6081888b8e1d06

Would love feedback, what would you want in a security distro?

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