Cyber Forensics Club Linux Distribution

This is a custom-spun version of Kali Linux containing tools and configurations useful for cyber security.

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Features

• Uses ZSH instead of Bash by default
• Includes a more friendly Vim with plugins (See Neovim Studio, the Vim Studio Lite edition)
• Much improved UX and aesthetics
• Tuned kernel for performance
• Laptop battery optimization
• Virtual machine drivers and interfaces, out of the box
• Nvidia drivers with blacklisted Nouveau
• Disabled GRUB beep (by default)
• Included several extra packages such as Tor browser, or qBittorrent

Cloning

git clone https://github.com/Purdue-Cyber-Forensics-Club/linux-distro
cd linux-distro/

Building

Currently, only Gnome 3.x is stable. To build with Gnome 3.x:

./build.sh --verbose

To build with variants:

./build.sh --variant kde --verbose

Variants include kde, xfce, mate, lxde, i3wm, e17. The light variant is not expected to function properly. In the future, we hope to add support for LXQt among other desktop environments.

Contributing

To add packages, see the list in kali-config/variant-gnome/package-lists/kali.list.chroot and add or remove your own entries.

To add files at build time (after package installation), map them out to the root directory in kali-config/common/includes.chroot/.

To execute scripts during build time to make dynamic changes, include them under kali-config/common/hooks/live/, with the extensions .chroot (.binary and .installer work too).