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Parrot


Last Update: 2023-05-03 02:10 UTC


Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS) is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 47 (222), 6 months: 58 (170), 3 months: 63 (163), 4 weeks: 70 (155), 1 week: 69 (134)

Average visitor rating: 8.44/10 from 36 review(s).


Parrot Summary
Distribution Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS)
Home Page https://parrotsec.org/
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User Forums https://community.parrotsec.org/
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Documentation https://parrotsec.org/docs
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2023-02-15: Distribution Release: Parrot 5.2
 • 2022-03-27: Distribution Release: Parrot 5.0
 • 2021-03-29: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.11
 • 2020-08-17: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.10
 • 2020-04-30: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.9
 • 2020-03-23: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.8
 • 2019-09-20: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.7
 • 2019-04-27: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.6
 • 2019-01-22: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.5
 • 2018-11-04: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.3
 • 2018-09-11: Distribution Release: Parrot 4.2.2
 • 2018-01-28: Distribution Release: Parrot Security OS 3.11
 • More Parrot releases...

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Feature 5.3 4.11.1 4.7 3.11 3.7 3.0.1 2.2.1 Feature
Release Date 2023-05-03 2021-04-14 2019-09-19 2018-01-28 2017-07-11 2016-06-18 2016-05-16 Release Date
End Of Life               End Of Life
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Price (US$)
Image Size (MB) 2400-4900 1600-4000 1800-4200 1500-3700 1400-3800     Image Size (MB)
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO Free Download
Installation               Installation
Default Desktop MATE KDE Plasma, MATE KDE Plasma, MATE MATE MATE MATE MATE Default Desktop
Package Management DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB DEB Package Management
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Release Model
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice LibreOffice GOffice GOffice GOffice, LibreOffice GOffice Office Suite
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 Processor Architecture
Init Software systemd systemd systemd systemd systemd SysV SysV Init Software
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 Journaled File Systems
Multilingual en en en en en en en Multilingual
Asian Language Support               Asian Language Support
Full Package List 5.3 4.11.1 4.7 3.11 3.7 3.0.1 2.2.1 Full Package List
Package 5.3 4.11.1 4.7 3.11 3.7 3.0.1 2.2.1 Package
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- -- 3.0.2 3.0.2 3.0.1 3.0.0 abiword (3.0.5)
alsa-lib (1.2.10) 1.2.4 1.2.4 1.1.8 1.1.3 1.1.3 1.1.1 1.0.28 alsa-lib (1.2.10)
amdgpu (23.0.0) 19.1.0 19.1.0 19.0.1 -- -- -- -- amdgpu (23.0.0)
bash (5.2.21) 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 bash (5.2.21)
bind (9.18.20) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- bind (9.18.20)
chromium (119.0.6045.199) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- chromium (119.0.6045.199)
cups (2.4.7) 2.3.3 2.3.3 2.3.0 2.2.6 2.2.3 2.1.3 1.7.5 cups (2.4.7)
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.4.1 4.3.5 4.3.5 4.3.4 4.3.1 dhcp (4.4.3-P1)
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.46.6 1.46.2 1.45.3 1.43.8 1.43.4 1.43.1 1.42.12 e2fsprogs (1.47.0)
firefox (120.0.1) 102.10.0 87.0 69.0 58.0 54.0 45.2.0 38.6.1 firefox (120.0.1)
freetype (2.13.2) 2.10.4 2.10.4 2.9.1 2.8.1 2.8 2.6.3 2.5.2 freetype (2.13.2)
gcc (13.2.0) 10.2.1 10.2.1 9.2.1 7.2.0 6.3.0 5.3.1 4.9.2 gcc (13.2.0)
gimp (2.10.36) 2.10.22 2.10.22 2.10.8 -- -- 2.8.16 -- gimp (2.10.36)
glibc (2.38) 2.31 2.31 2.28 2.26 2.24 2.22 2.19 glibc (2.38)
gnome-shell (45.2) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- gnome-shell (45.2)
gnucash (5.4-1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- gnucash (5.4-1)
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- -- 1.12.35 1.12.32 1.12.29 1.12.18 gnumeric (1.12.56)
grub (2.06) 2.06 -- -- -- -- -- 2.02beta2 grub (2.06)
gtk (4.12.4) 3.24.24 3.24.24 3.24.11 3.22.26 3.22.16 3.20.6 3.14.5 gtk (4.12.4)
httpd (2.4.58) 2.4.56 2.4.46 2.4.41 2.4.29 2.4.25 2.4.20 2.4.10 httpd (2.4.58)
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- inkscape (1.3.1)
k3b (23.08.3) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- k3b (23.08.3)
kmod (31) 28 28 26 25 24 22 18 kmod (31)
krita (5.2.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- krita (5.2.1)
libreoffice (7.6.3) 7.4.5 7.0.4 6.3.0 5.4.3 5.2.7 5.1.4rc1 -- libreoffice (7.6.3)
linux (6.6.4) 6.1.15 5.10.28 5.2.9 4.14.13 4.11.6 4.5.3 4.3.3 linux (6.6.4)
Package 5.3 4.11.1 4.7 3.11 3.7 3.0.1 2.2.1 Package
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- lxpanel (0.10.1)
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- 10.3.17 10.1.26 10.1.22 -- -- mariadb (11.1.3)
mate-desktop (1.26.2) 1.24.1 1.24.1 1.22.1 1.18.0 1.16.2 1.14.1 1.8.1 mate-desktop (1.26.2)
mesa (23.3.0) 20.3.5 20.3.4 19.1.4 17.3.3 13.0.6 11.2.2 10.3.2 mesa (23.3.0)
mysql (8.2.0) -- -- -- -- -- 5.6.30 -- mysql (8.2.0)
nautilus (45.2) -- -- -- -- -- 3.20.1 -- nautilus (45.2)
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- NVIDIA (545.29.06)
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- openbox (3.6.1)
openjdk (21.0.1) 17.0.6u1 11.0.11 11.0.4 8u151 8u131 8u91 7u95 openjdk (21.0.1)
openssh (9.5p1) 8.4p1 8.4p1 8.0p1 7.6p1 7.5p1 7.2p2 6.7p1 openssh (9.5p1)
openssl (3.2.0) 1.1.1n 1.1.1k 1.1.1c 1.1.0g 1.0.2l 1.0.2h 1.0.1k openssl (3.2.0)
perl (5.38.2) 5.32.1 5.32.1 5.28.1 5.26.1 5.24.1 5.22.2 5.20.2 perl (5.38.2)
php (8.3.0) 7.4.33 7.4.15 7.3.8 7.0.27 7.0.20 5.6.22 5.6.14 php (8.3.0)
plasma-desktop (5.27.9) -- 5.20.5 5.14.5.1 -- -- -- -- plasma-desktop (5.27.9)
postfix (3.8.3) -- -- -- -- -- 3.1.0 -- postfix (3.8.3)
postgresql (16.1) 13.10 13.2 11.5 10.1 9.6.3 9.5.3 9.4.6 postgresql (16.1)
Python (3.12.0) 3.9.2 3.9.2 3.7.4 2.7.14 2.7.13 2.7.11 2.7.9 Python (3.12.0)
qt (6.6.1) 5.15.2 5.15.2 5.11.3 5.9.2 5.7.1 5.5.1 4.8.6 qt (6.6.1)
samba (4.19.3) 4.17.7 4.13.5 4.9.11 4.7.4 4.6.5 4.4.3 4.1.17 samba (4.19.3)
systemd (254.7) 252.5 247.3 242 236 233 230 215 systemd (254.7)
thunderbird (115.5.1) -- -- 60.8.0 -- -- 45.1.0 -- thunderbird (115.5.1)
vim (9.0) 8.2 8.2 8.1 8.0 8.0 7.4 7.4 vim (9.0)
vlc (3.0.20) 3.0.18 3.0.12 3.0.8 3.0.0rc6 2.2.6 2.2.4 2.2.0rc2 vlc (3.0.20)
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- wayland (1.22.0)
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xfdesktop (4.18.1)
xorg-server (21.1.9) 1.20.11 1.20.10 1.20.4 1.19.5 1.19.3 1.18.3 1.17.2 xorg-server (21.1.9)

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Version: 5.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-11-29
Votes: 2


Am a computer science and mathematics tutor and I love teaching python on Parrot os simply it has python installed, I use it for my daily use due to the disk encryption feature, liber office and other amazingly powerful tools. I simply teach and make a living on parrot os. It's more powerful compared to Kali Linux. I've also used windows 10/11 but I can't get all in parrot in windows plus I love using terminal. According to me I love freedom in linux. The mate environment in parrot I love it for that old look on a sad day all I want to do is code on my parrot os


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Version: 5.2
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-15
Votes: 8


Parrot os is good i am also using parrot os
but still there are small issues
sometimes while i am using my mouse left click don't work suddenly
i found solution to this problem
by entering this command solve this problem
sudo udevadm trigger
but still i am also a average beginner
when this issue happen in starting stage i didn't understand why
this is a small issue
if parrot os team fix this issue default it's very helpful to beginners

and yes of course this os is very low end
just use 600MB ram
run very smoothly , installer is also very user friendly ( calamares ) 10 times better than kali



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Version: 5.2
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-03
Votes: 4


I use it with kde for its flexibility, its security tool and daily use. Very smooth. Simple to install and use. Powerful collection of security and network check tool. No need to install one at once. On Firefox there are various link to documentation. Simple anonymize tools for people in illiberal country with strict surveillance like Russia, China or USA. Installed Latte for best OSX like experience and some utility like amule, torrent, calibre, free42, mc but still stock image is perfect. Better to install boot Mate and KDE on my experience.


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