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Cybersecurity engineers and pentesters don't need Kali or Parrot. You don't need Proxmox to use LXC and KVM. You don't need OpenMediaVault to have Samba and NFS shares. You don't need Clonezilla to make use of the OCS toolkit. You don't need LMDE to have a Debian OS with Cinnamon and nonfree drivers installed, or Endeavour to have Arch with KDE Plasma.
But it's sure as shit good to have everything packed together and preconfigured by professionals.
Or if not professionals at least someone who knows more about it than yourself.
And even if they don't, they know enough to do it to a level I am happy to not bother doing it myself.
Absolutely.
Edit, responded to the wrong comment somehow.
Or at least willing to push whatever barely working bullshit they forgot to test.
Clonezilla is more like an app that comes with an OS on a liveCD for convenience, as it's troublesome to use the very OS you're cloning.
Yeah its a program that has a minimal OS. Its more about the program than the operating system.
Proxmox does add extended hardware support, as does Kali. Parrot enables necessary repos and kernel modifications for Red and Blue team workflows. I don’t know enough about DEs to speak about the others but those three don’t apply to the meme.
I'm not sure I'd go to the lengths of using OMV just to have a samba share.
Sounds like a perfect application for Nix, IMO. Either ship a flake or a NixOS config module, and you’re set.
The only disadvantage I can see is the unusual directory structure of NixOS.
Maybe the existence of these distros (appliances) is a sign of the state of Linux.
May the next distro win.