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.
The Parrot team have announced a new version, 4.11.2, of the distributions Home and Security editions. Parrot is based on Debian’s “Testing” branch and features a wide range of updates, particularly to the kernel.
If you use it and have difficulties while installing, here is the Parrot OS 4.11.2 manual partitioning explained:
Also, for those interested, it was also announced the release of Parrot 4.3, a new stable build of the project’s Debian-based distribution with a collection of utilities for penetration testing, digital forensics, programming and privacy protection.