 Parrot security version 4.7. Well, it's officially not officially out just kind of way I look at this So I did a review a few months ago of the Parrot Linux distribution if you're not familiar with Parrot Linux It is a security focused Linux distro based on Debian And it's also set up to be a rolling distribution Which is really nice the nice thing about any rolling distribution is you don't really Have to wait for the point release and do some type of major upgrade to it It just kind of happens and right now it's at 4.7. So they do give it names They do give it point releases for announcement reasons But they're always adding features and setting what the default should be because at some point They do have to close these updates and then release an ISO. So the ISO isn't out for parrot Linux 4.7 but Even though it's not out and you can still download parrot 4.6 when you go here to about Because I've just been running all the updates. I'm at Parrot Linux 4.7 Which also means I have the new Colonel that comes with it which is currently 5.2 This is really nice because you get all the bleeding edge features all the time But it's actually stable. I haven't really had any issues I said haven't really had and that does imply some issues The one thing I've run into a couple times because they moved to the latest version of Maté Which I have both Maté and KDE Installed in here that way whatever mood I'm in I can switch between them I've talked about that and the other one you can literally just install both desktops no matter which one you download You can easily install both desktops and switch between them at the login screen In Maté occasionally the network does not update What I mean by that is a little in the corner and I can't produce it on demand But occasionally when I'm swapping between networks, it will sometimes pause and not let me click the little network icon at the top Everything works in the command line. It's still online. It's not a functional thing It's just a visual thing of not knowing whether you're connected to the Wi-Fi the VPN or the hard line Minor problem And I know I just got a bunch of updates this morning And so I was gonna test it some more and see if it still happens But when you update a desktop that does occasionally occur, but it didn't hurt the functionality of it at all And considering how so to speak cutting edge all this is I don't really look at that as any type of major issue It doesn't have any problems at all and I've been going back and forth and I probably use KDE More than I use the Maté desktop now on my laptop here And if you didn't notice because this always comes up. This is the four Core well two core hyper threaded 4x Intel Core i5 5300U low powered 2.3 gigahertz running on my Lenovo which I always want to call it an IBM But it's a Lenovo think pad because the think pad series came from IBM X 250 This is not a spectacular laptop by any means matter of fact, you can find a pretty cheap on eBay And I'm it for my daily driver for what I use at home Obviously, I'm not doing any video editing or high-end gaming on this But I don't really game and video editing is done on my new thread ripper not thread ripper 3,900 X Ryzen machine back to the Parrot GNU here So I haven't any problems with it. It's been working really well I kind of like the wobbly windows again, which is why I went back over to the KDE desktop I I know it's stupid, but they make me happy, but what did I use this for I guess was being one of those questions People ask a lot. Why would you run parrot on here versus Papa West on your desktop? So I found that parrot on my laptop is handy because I spend a lot of time going to clients And one of the tools that is just really well put together in parrot is net discover And this is a lot of times when I get to a client and I got to start sorting things out Especially when you're talking about new clients new client onboarding, you know Really quickly I can go here and go. All right. Let's just find some stuff. Yes that quickly we started enumerating my network and I'm on the network where a lot of our stuff is the private network and You can see the switches I found on there You can find the Chelsea. Oh communications and if you follow any of my free Nass videos You'll also realize that the Chelsea. Oh communications is the free Nass with the 10 gig card It just identifies everything really quickly. So from there I can start doing things like our I know the IP address It's that 3.8 for that particular device. We'll cancel this And we'll just run something like Zen map Because I wanted a UI and I can start doing more scans. So let's dig a little deeper and I know you can load all these tools on other distributions, but they've built it all in which just makes it really really nice So let's just do a quick scan and let's see what it figures out about my free Nass Oh, look, there's the port center open and things that are available In you can see really quickly you can pivot and start doing things a lot faster The VPN support is still, you know, really nice in here. So if I need to jump to I'm in my office, but I still have my Quickly connect here. I did the video on the non-surf It's with this latest version which works great the non-surf But being able to switch between VPNs the non-surf if I need to go outside and look in The non-surf can be pretty cool for that when you have to be somewhere But want to look at the firewall from an external view. That's another reason. I like having the VPN in there the VPN actually puts it so I map through my own network and What that means is what I'm at a client, but I need to look at their firewalls. I'm configuring it I can see how that firewall looks from my network and be able to scan pair. It just makes all this really smooth for me Already having all my other tools like proxy chains and things like that that I've used regularly built in not to mention all the Information gathering things like that. So it's still running it It's still one of my favorite Distributions to have on my laptop because just having everything at your fingertips is really really handy Also running the latest kernel means things like this and I did a review of this device the alpha networks This is the exact model and I'll leave a link to the review is AWS 1900 place right model number. Yeah, AWS 1900 I'll leave a link to the review I did on this But if you're not familiar with this nice powerful Wi-Fi for doing testing It's handy because I don't have to and other distributions Maybe you'll have to load a driver on this because it's running latest kernel. It seems to pop right up. No problems And like I said back to the advantage of running parrot with all the latest bells and whistles So I still think it's a great distribution I just want to do a follow-up on there because I get a lot of questions What distro are you running and I'll just refer back to this video until I change But I don't do distro hopping much so I'm a really happy pair at the development team has been really good Feel free to join their forums to keep the discussion They're still looking for suggestions of you know What are the defaults going to be for 4.7 everything else and I'm also going to be doing some testing I just got to get around to it to trying this on a raspberry pi they have been working on a raspberry pi implementation of this with the pi 4 being affordable and Powerful at the same time. I'm really hoping to get some testing done with this I know Kali works fine as I've read on the pi 4 But I you know, I'm kind of used to the parent environment, so I want to see how good that works in there So there'll be some future testing. I do but let me know your thoughts below in Comments questions of concern, but overall like I said, I'm parrot is still a great distribution to run Watch my more in-depth review where I talk about a lot of the tools that are on there But it is wonderful to go out to clients and be able to quickly start enumerating a network Because that is sometimes the first thing I need to do when we do on-boarding and having all these utilities Built right in makes it a lot easier easier to do and if you need to get more in-depth It does come with open VAS set up on here, which will allow you to do like whole application testing and things like that Gonna get to a later video on that. It's just a complex piece of software says for those of you wondering why I haven't done a video on it That's really why it's a matter of getting around to doing those more complicated videos They take a little bit more time to put together. All right, leave your comments below And if there's something real specific besides open VAS that you want to learn about from parrot OS, let me know leave your thoughts below Thanks. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up If you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content hit that subscribe button and the bell icon And maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post If you want to hire us for a project that you've seen or discussed in this video head over to LawrenceSystems.com where we offer both business IT services and consulting services and are excited to help you with whatever project you Want to throw at us? 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