Athena OS

Reader supplied reviews for Athena OS Average rating 8.3 from 8 review(s) What are your thoughts on Athena OS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.112023.06.23 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 23.11 Rating: 8 Date: 2024-11-25 Votes: 1 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.11 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-06-27 Votes: 5 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 Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2023.06.23 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-06-24 Votes: 4 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of Athena OS...