Kali LinuX on Windows

Exactly two years ago, in March 2016, Microsoft scandalized the world by announcing its support for Linux. Microsoft Build event - when the moment was announced - instantly excited because as we all know, Microsoft is a 'common enemy' for the open source community.

Two years later, Microsoft continues to deliver on its promise to bring Bash Linux to Windows and make Windows more Linux-friendly. Winpoin also discussed that Microsoft has brought Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora which are each popular Linux distro, to the Microsoft Store! Of course for Linux users, this is a pretty interesting offer!

This time, Microsoft announced that users can already download live Linux Times from the Microsoft Store!

By downloading this Linux Times app, you can install and run penetration testing distribution for Times Linux natively in Windows OS 10.

To use it you need to activate WSL (Windows Susbystem for Linux) via Turn Windows features on or off.

After that you just download and install Linux Times for Windows 10 from Microsoft Store. Then to run shell times, type in the command prompt as admin and press Enter, or click the Kali tile in the Start Menu. Now you can install various tools Linux times and run them directly from within Windows. The installation process tool you can do through apt command, for example to install Metasploit Framework, just run the command

apt-get update
apt-get install metasploit-framework

WinPoint will provide a complete guide how to install Linux Times on Windows 10 - and how to use it in the next article. Stay tuned!