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Athena OS
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Reader supplied reviews for Athena OS
Average rating
8.3 from 8 review(s)
Version: 23.11
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-11-25
Votes: 1
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Has much potential. Two distro variants, one is Arch Based, the other is NIX based. That alone was enough to peak my interest. My exprience was more on the Arch side, it has some bugs with install and setup which may aggravate beginner learners, but if you're accustomed to tinkering and getting deep into your own setup, AthenaOS is ideal. It's highly customizable, being Arch based, you can choose your own custom kernel, build your own as well as access to the Arch AUR and wiki. Also having access to the massive BlackArch repo for a vast number of tools. Note: if you choose FISH as your shell which isn't fully POSIX compliant it's likely expected for some tools to break. AthenaOS quite polished and stable on the Arch setup, I hope they continue it. As for the Nix variant which is still in beta, I didn't explore too much as it was too buggy for me. I think this is where the project is focusing on in future, using the infrastructure as code and everything as a declarative dataflow config. It's intriguing and quite different to other distros, though for me, quite a learning curve to eventually learn one day. For others more technical with a NIX is the new Arch mindset that don't mind the technical learning curve like a wall, then this is an ideal distro to hone your cybersecurity craft.
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Version: 23.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-27
Votes: 5
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Great OS this is what id describe as "the parrot of arch" its everything you love about ParrotSec in a Arch distro you can pick your field of cybersecurity for example red team, blue team, bug bounty hunter, student and itll precompile and install the tools for your job title/field and you can always add on to it another thing i liked was it lets you choose a browser during the install, the install is easy if your used to Arch but slightly harder then say mint, parrot, kali the UI and the user friendliness of the actual OS is worth learning Arch however if you want something similar but less security oriented Garuda with blackarch repos is a close second
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Version: 2023.06.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-06-24
Votes: 3
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I have been more than a little curious about infosec and sometimes look into distros like Kali or Tails. Athena is in a completely different league. The level of polish and sophistication is not found elsewhere. I found it very easy to install and select a role. After poking about a bit I started to wish they would make a daily-driver edition. So many small details have just been taken care of - Athena is a well-finished piece of art. I am planning to pop this on my next piece of spare hardware and to delve further that the few days I had. A big positive that I quickly did find was actually having a starting point. Other pen-test infosec distros just go, "here are the tools, good luck.", assuming one already knows everything.
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Version: 2023.06.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-06-06
Votes: 0
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It's simply rubbish, full of bugs. I tried to install it to several different machines including also VirtualBox-machines, but it's not only very slow due to massive downloads (although the ISO-image is around 2.5 GB!), but installation with Calamares always ended up with an error message concerning the packet manager. Partitioning is also an issue. You have to use GParted, because otherwise Calamares won't be able to create a usable partition table. It's a nice distro for people who have too much time and who don't know how to use their time. But for those who don't want to play games like bug-hunting, it's a waste of time. Avoid!
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Version: 2023.02.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-30
Votes: 1
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Have tried several different security focused distros, and I'm still in the learning phase. The amount of resources available to those learning with Athena OS is awesome, love the integrations they've included with the OS, and the custom theming is nice too.
I really enjoy the roles functionality they've included as well. Installing the apps/packages that are needed for a specific role automatically is such a helpful feature.
The team I've interacted with on Discord is nothing short of extremely friendly, and more than happy and willing to help resolve any issues someone might run into!
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Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-18
Votes: 3
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This is awesome! great UI, awesome integration with HTB among others. Very customized down to popup notification for new CVE.
It's a little bloated, but you obv shouldn't try and run it on an old macbook. Only downside is no live usb version yet.
Is based on arch , so bleeding edge everything, including blackarch repos built in. custom themes, great for beginners and I think some vets will like too!
Seems like the right tool for a bare metal pentesting distro, hopefully will get a little more hardened with time
I hope this project sticks around!
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Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 7
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A perfect distro for pentesting and who want to start doing cybersecurity. It's lightweight and the developer is very friendly. I m beginner in cybersecurity and it allows me to install the tools which I want and even i can install specific category of tools. Awesome OS.
I can start machine from htb menu while is really cool and even i can submit flag. I really like this feature. It allows so many themes unlike other distro. I m really enjoying this distro and planning to install it on baremetal bcz it very stable.
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Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 3
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At the start I was very scipic regarding Arch distro's. I am inside a community where they really recommend using Athena OS. At the start I had to get used to basic functionalities like installing packages, etc. But honestly this is one of the most fastest and reliable OS there is on the market. I am never going to return to Ubuntu (Debian based). With Athena you have the ability to install a lot of packages which provides you with a lot of freedom on what you can perform on the OS.
So if you think to use an (Black) Arch OS, I recommend Athena OS.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Athena OS
Version: 23.11
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-11-25
Votes: 1
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Has much potential. Two distro variants, one is Arch Based, the other is NIX based. That alone was enough to peak my interest. My exprience was more on the Arch side, it has some bugs with install and setup which may aggravate beginner learners, but if you're accustomed to tinkering and getting deep into your own setup, AthenaOS is ideal. It's highly customizable, being Arch based, you can choose your own custom kernel, build your own as well as access to the Arch AUR and wiki. Also having access to the massive BlackArch repo for a vast number of tools. Note: if you choose FISH as your shell which isn't fully POSIX compliant it's likely expected for some tools to break. AthenaOS quite polished and stable on the Arch setup, I hope they continue it. As for the Nix variant which is still in beta, I didn't explore too much as it was too buggy for me. I think this is where the project is focusing on in future, using the infrastructure as code and everything as a declarative dataflow config. It's intriguing and quite different to other distros, though for me, quite a learning curve to eventually learn one day. For others more technical with a NIX is the new Arch mindset that don't mind the technical learning curve like a wall, then this is an ideal distro to hone your cybersecurity craft.
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 23.11
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-27
Votes: 5
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Great OS this is what id describe as "the parrot of arch" its everything you love about ParrotSec in a Arch distro you can pick your field of cybersecurity for example red team, blue team, bug bounty hunter, student and itll precompile and install the tools for your job title/field and you can always add on to it another thing i liked was it lets you choose a browser during the install, the install is easy if your used to Arch but slightly harder then say mint, parrot, kali the UI and the user friendliness of the actual OS is worth learning Arch however if you want something similar but less security oriented Garuda with blackarch repos is a close second
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.06.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-06-24
Votes: 3
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I have been more than a little curious about infosec and sometimes look into distros like Kali or Tails. Athena is in a completely different league. The level of polish and sophistication is not found elsewhere. I found it very easy to install and select a role. After poking about a bit I started to wish they would make a daily-driver edition. So many small details have just been taken care of - Athena is a well-finished piece of art. I am planning to pop this on my next piece of spare hardware and to delve further that the few days I had. A big positive that I quickly did find was actually having a starting point. Other pen-test infosec distros just go, "here are the tools, good luck.", assuming one already knows everything.
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.06.01
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-06-06
Votes: 0
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It's simply rubbish, full of bugs. I tried to install it to several different machines including also VirtualBox-machines, but it's not only very slow due to massive downloads (although the ISO-image is around 2.5 GB!), but installation with Calamares always ended up with an error message concerning the packet manager. Partitioning is also an issue. You have to use GParted, because otherwise Calamares won't be able to create a usable partition table. It's a nice distro for people who have too much time and who don't know how to use their time. But for those who don't want to play games like bug-hunting, it's a waste of time. Avoid!
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.02.20
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-30
Votes: 1
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Have tried several different security focused distros, and I'm still in the learning phase. The amount of resources available to those learning with Athena OS is awesome, love the integrations they've included with the OS, and the custom theming is nice too.
I really enjoy the roles functionality they've included as well. Installing the apps/packages that are needed for a specific role automatically is such a helpful feature.
The team I've interacted with on Discord is nothing short of extremely friendly, and more than happy and willing to help resolve any issues someone might run into!
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-18
Votes: 3
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This is awesome! great UI, awesome integration with HTB among others. Very customized down to popup notification for new CVE.
It's a little bloated, but you obv shouldn't try and run it on an old macbook. Only downside is no live usb version yet.
Is based on arch , so bleeding edge everything, including blackarch repos built in. custom themes, great for beginners and I think some vets will like too!
Seems like the right tool for a bare metal pentesting distro, hopefully will get a little more hardened with time
I hope this project sticks around!
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 3
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At the start I was very scipic regarding Arch distro's. I am inside a community where they really recommend using Athena OS. At the start I had to get used to basic functionalities like installing packages, etc. But honestly this is one of the most fastest and reliable OS there is on the market. I am never going to return to Ubuntu (Debian based). With Athena you have the ability to install a lot of packages which provides you with a lot of freedom on what you can perform on the OS.
So if you think to use an (Black) Arch OS, I recommend Athena OS.
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Project: Athena OS
Version: 2023.01.23
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 7
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A perfect distro for pentesting and who want to start doing cybersecurity. It's lightweight and the developer is very friendly. I m beginner in cybersecurity and it allows me to install the tools which I want and even i can install specific category of tools. Awesome OS.
I can start machine from htb menu while is really cool and even i can submit flag. I really like this feature. It allows so many themes unlike other distro. I m really enjoying this distro and planning to install it on baremetal bcz it very stable.
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