The evolution of Kali Linux

Though a groundbreaking technology, Kali Purple has its modern roots back in the year 1969. It was then in AT&T’s Bell Laboratories that Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie co-created the UNIX OS. Ritchie is also famously known for creating the C programming language. Nearly all modern computing exists because of Ritchie’s two biggest contributions. The original Windows was programmed in C. UNIX eventually became available in both open source and commercial varieties. The two biggest customers of commercial UNIX were the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and – drumroll please – Apple Computer. That’s right. The Mac OS X is built from UNIX. That leaves only one major player to account for… Linux.

A computer scientist at the University of Helsinki in Finland, Linus Torvalds grabbed one of the open source versions of UNIX and began to add his style to create a brand-new OS based on UNIX. He then publicly...