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Re: Customizing/repository question



Ralph Sanchez wrote:
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> Good morning. I was just wandering, is it safe to use packages from
> another Debian based district repositories by adding them to my
> sources file, specifically Kali Linux? 

Nope, not packages ... but you could always build from source.

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> The only notable difference between the two sisters that I found,
> aside from intended use, is that you always login as route in Kali,
> mitigated by using sudo in Jessie.  Just wanted to know if this is
> either a, a good solution, b, a horrible idea or c, trial and error
> time.

A) no
b) yes
c) no

Running as *root* is not smart.  Kali is (AFAICT) not a "general use"
distro - it is specifically set up to be used for one specific purpose.

HTH.

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