Parrot Newsletter
Welcome to the first Parrot Newsletter!
From now on you will receive periodically notifications containing news about ParrotOS.
What’s new this month?
New upcoming ParrotOS version
The next version of ParrotOS, 5.0
, is going to be finalized soon. This version will be particular: It’ll be the first ParrotOS’ LTS
version ever.
What does LTS mean?
Long Term Support - A lifetime policy which ensures to the stable version of a product the maintaining support for a longer period than the classic or unstable version. For instance, ParrotOS is a rolling release
by default, this means frequent updates. If the OS isn’t updated, it can become outdated and potentially exposed to security risks. With LTS, ParrotOS 5.0 will be supported for a very long time.
New Forum Structure
Our main community place, https://community.parrotsec.org/, got a new fresh organization.
the forum is now organized into three main Categories:
- Project
- Support
- Hacking Community
The Support category got the main huge change, let’s focus on this.
The category has been subdivided in 7 sub-categories:
- Installation and configuration
In this section users can receive help on installing and setting up Parrot.
- Driver and Hardware
Here users can receive support on hardware-related issues and questions.
- Network
Here will be given support on any networking issues.
- Tools and Software
Section for the largest part of issues that users can encounter.
- Update
Users can get help when they experience issues while updating ParrotOS and/or its reporitories.
- Virtual Machine
Section dedicated to ParrotOS running on Virturalization softwares.
- Container
Support for ParrotOS running under Containers (e.g. Docker)
New Documentation
ParrotOS got a fresh new documentation available at Welcome to the Parrot Documentation - Parrot Documentation
It’s actually available in English, but we’re working on localizing it on Spanish and French! Do you want to contribute to Doc’s localization? send an email to [email protected]
It’s divided in three main areas:
- Introduction
This section includes guides about What is ParrotOS, its sysrem requirements, helping users choosing the best version suitable for them, and our contacts on social and our communities.
- Installation
Here users can find everything they need for installing ParrotOS: Installation Media creation steps, ParrotOS installation steps (and even for dualbooting with Windows too!), VirtualBox procedure and QubesOS installation steps.
- Configuration
Section dedicated to post-installation stuff: NVIDIA Drivers
, AppArmor
, APT management tips
, and many other things.
- Legal
Section containing our Privacy Policy and Warrant Canary.
New Website
ParrotOS is renewing its website with a fresh-looking and modern skin, made with react-static
, typescript
and material UI
for the graphic appearance. It’ll be ready soon, so stay tuned!
Even the website it’s going to be localized in other languages, if you want to contribute, send an email to [email protected]