In this section, we will be installing an Ubuntu (Linux) VM in our lab environment for testing purposes. As I mentioned previously, an awesome penetration tester or ethical hacker is someone who has a lot of knowledge and experience of many operating systems.
It's quite good to have a broad understanding and knowledge of various types of environments and operating systems as it will make security auditing and penetration testing much easier for you. We are going to use the Ubuntu 8.10 operating system within our lab.
The Linux operating system comes in many flavors, such as Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Mint Linux, Ubuntu, and RedHat.
There are three ways to get started installing Ubuntu on your lab, as follows:
- Navigate to Ubuntu's website at www.ubuntu.com and go to the Download page to obtain a copy of the latest version of Ubuntu. ...
