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  1. I've spent quite a few hours rigorously researching the Raspberry Pi and operating systems that are supported and have decided that Parrot Security OS would be a better alternative. It's fully supported for the Raspberry Pi and after watching some more videos about it, I've found out that it is more streamlined/lighter than Kali and overall has a better feel. The Raspberry Pi version comes with only a few pentesting tools but due to them being the basics I doubt I'll need much more. Plus their normal versions have different distros for the full version, a light version with no pentesting tools installed and even a media version that comes with tools designed for video and photo editing as well as programming. Overall it just looks like a better operating system than Kali
  2. Thanks for the responses guys, due to the amount of people telling me to get a Raspberry Pi I've been looking in to it. I'm just curious about how much RAM they have and what's required for Kali. The Pi 3 B only has 1gb of ram yet Kali (last time I checked) says it recommends minimum 2gb of ram. As for CTFs, I might get more in to online and web-based CTFs instead due to them being easier. What kinds of tools do you think I'll need for web-based CTFs? I've been watching videos and I see a lot of python and burpsuite but not much else. Since I've only got the 1gb of ram do you think it would be better to get something like Lubuntu and manually install what I need as I need it or download Kali which has everything installed and probably never use 80% of it.
  3. Hey Everyone, I've just started getting in to pentesting and although watching videos on how to do pentesting, I'd prefer to have my own machine with Kali installed that I can practice different stuff with. The problem is I'm a student with a very tight budget and don't have heaps of money to buy a brand-new, i7 8gb ram computer. (I can't use my current computer because it's a school-issued laptop and I don't have admin access to install VirtualBox. I've installed Qemu but I'm not too sure how to use it yet, I'll research a bit more before purchasing something). These are my options: 1. I've got a spare computer with a broken screen, it will cost about $100 to get it fixed. I can just use a monitor but the problem is I can't access the bios when using a monitor to install Kali and it's only an i3 with 4gb ram, probably not enough to run a decent vm. 2. Purchase a second-hand laptop. I've been searching around, found a few good laptops that are equal specs as my spare laptop and cost the same. I'm just very cautious when I'm buying second-hand tech stuff because I'm not sure how the other people have used them in the past. 3. Buying a brand-new android tablet. I've heard of people using android tablets for pentesting so I was wondering if it was worth it to get an android tablet and install Kali or whatever on to it to practice pentesting. What do you guys think?
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