Today, in HydraPWK post in this time we will giving good and little bad news, and also polkitd as dependencies in our metapackages.
HydraPWK on distrowatch
Even though it hasn’t been officially announced by distrowatch, looking at the HydraPWK page on distrowatch, we decided to make our own post about it.
Almost three years developing HydraPWK (Formerly known as BlackTrack) and this time has come and we’re (I’m) very excited about it, looking and developing how this project growing, until like this, maybe you just thinking this project is bad, this project is too ambitious, you’re not wrong about that’s maybe you right.
And the first achievement was getting into distrowatch, I mean, less than two months since we submitted this project and that was one of our best achievements, In less than two months, this small project made it onto the distrowatch page among other big projects!.
And we’re very thank you about it!, and with our loyal community especially Mr.pro and Fox47, I’m very thank you with you guys! Thanks once again, You’ve been with me all the way from the first time this project was created(BlackTrack) until now!(HydraPWK).
We got banned from reddit
If you looking our previous announcement (HydraPWK Migrate) we’re giving announcement, if we’re making new sub community on reddit r/hydrapwk and mastodon (infosec.exchange) but yeah sadly we got banned from reddit.
We have submitted an appeal to Reddit, but until now there has been no response. We hope that the Reddit platform (mods) will investigate it immediately.
polkitd
We are currently weighing the pros and cons of adding polkitd to our IMAGE/ISO (as a dependency on our desktop metapackages).
We calculate the pros and cons on HydraPWK performance (polkitd will enter as autostart on the desktop) If the benefits are greater, perhaps we will consider making it part of the metapackage (dependencies hydrapwk-default-desktop).
Thanks!
And to conclude this post, we’d like to thank Debian and its community and developers! Without them, this project wouldn’t exist!.
Once again, thanks everyone! Don’t forget you’re free to open issues and giving critique off course.
Support and resources
GitHub issues - Have problem or critique? Open issues now!
Troubleshoot pages - HydraPWK Official Troubleshoot page
Reddit community - HydraPWK Official subredit
Telegram community - HydraPWK Official Telegram Community
Mastodon - infosec.exchange
Distrowatch - HydraPWK distrowatch page
latest independent review about HydraPWK
Newest review
connectwww - How to Install HydraPWK Linux on VirtualBox
iguru.gr - HydraPWK (Αύγουστος) Stress Test, Cracking, Reversing, Forensics
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Older review
Penguinreviewlinux.org - HydraPWK GNU/Linux 2025.01.6.5.250806258: Distribuția open-source pentru hacking și pentesting, cu nucleu Real-Time și unelte avansate
Desdelinux - Top nuevas Distros Linux / BSD a ser reconocidas en 2025: Parte 08
Penguin reviews
Gladilov.org.ru - Новая виртуальная ОСь — 22.07.2025
NX11Dev HydraPWK GNU/Linux:Debian系渗透测试利器,以开源之力筑牢网络安全防线
Iguru.gr