Why Xfce? After reviewing the above issues, we felt that Xfce addressed them best while still being accessible to the majority of users. To help us address these items, we tracked down Daniel Ruiz de Alegría and started the development of a new theme running on Xfce. So we wanted to go with something fresh, new, and modern.

Modern look - We have been using the same UI for quite a while now, and our old theme maintainer had moved on due to lack of time.That’s not optimal, and we wanted to unify this experience so it did not matter if you were running on a bare metal install on a high end laptop or using a Raspberry Pi, the UI should be the same. Because of this, traditionally our lower-end ARM builds have had a completely different UI than our standard. Fractured user experience - We support a range of hardware, from the very high end to the very low.Gnome has been overkill for most Kali users, as many just want a window manager that allows you to run multiple terminal windows at once, and a web browser. We wanted to speed things up, and have a desktop environment that does only what it’s needed for, and nothing else. But all these features comes with overhead, often overhead that is not useful for a distribution like Kali. Performance issues - Gnome is a fully-featured desktop environment with a ton of awesome things it can do.As a summary we had a few issues we wanted to address head-on: We have been talking about how to address this, what we wanted to do, experimenting on different approaches, and so on for months now. So let’s cover that first.Īn update to the desktop environment has been a long time coming. There are a ton of updates to go over for this release, but the most in your face item that everyone is going to notice first are the changes to the desktop environment and theme. … Plus the normal bugs fixes and updates.The kernel is upgraded to version 5.3.9.

Kali NetHunter KeX - Full Kali desktop on Android.

Public Packaging - getting your tools into Kali.

Kali Documentation has a new home and is now Git powered.

A new default desktop environment, Xfce.

We are incredibly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, which is available immediately for download.Ģ019.4 includes some exciting new updates: Time to grab yourself a drink, this will take a while!

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