Amazon FreeRTOS vs Kali Linux

Overview

Kali Linux

Stacks259

Followers381

Votes25

Amazon FreeRTOS

Stacks14

Followers25

Votes0

Amazon FreeRTOS vs Kali Linux: What are the differences?

What is Amazon FreeRTOS? IoT operating system for microcontrollers. Amazon FreeRTOS (a:FreeRTOS) is an operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage.

What is Kali Linux? Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. It contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.

Amazon FreeRTOS and Kali Linux can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon FreeRTOS are:

Based on the FreeRTOS Kernel
Local connectivity
Cloud connectivity

On the other hand, Kali Linux provides the following key features:

Advanced Penetration Testing Distribution
More than 600 penetration testing tools included
FHS compliant

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Kali Linux	Amazon FreeRTOS
It is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. It contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.	Amazon FreeRTOS (a:FreeRTOS) is an operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage.
Advanced Penetration Testing Distribution; More than 600 penetration testing tools included; FHS compliant; Custom kernel, patched for injection	Based on the FreeRTOS Kernel; Local connectivity; Cloud connectivity; Support for AWS IoT Core device shadows; Secure device, connection, and updates; Supported microcontrollers; Amazon FreeRTOS console
Statistics
Stacks 259	Stacks 14
Followers 381	Followers 25
Votes 25	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 8 Has many penetration testing tools 8 Penetration testing tools are pre-installed 5 Runs on both x86 and ARM platforms 3 Its just debian so it has better support 1 There's no restrictions Cons 3 Outdated versions of common packages 3 Wireless driver issues on some systems 3 Packages are too large in size as compare to alpine 2 Root GUI setup is a potential security hole	No community feedback yet
Integrations
VirtualBox MySQL Slack	AWS Greengrass Amazon IoT

What are some alternatives to Kali Linux, Amazon FreeRTOS?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.

Linux

A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

CoreOS

It is designed for security, consistency, and reliability. Instead of installing packages via yum or apt, it uses Linux containers to manage your services at a higher level of abstraction. A single service's code and all dependencies are packaged within a container that can be run on one or many machines.

Gentoo Linux

It is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.