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Start Your Free Software Development Course One of Kali Linux’s features is the terminal and gives a head start to a newbie and an experienced Linux user to try out this operating system for fulfilling the duties and tasks. In today’s world, Linux is the most popular OS used by security experts and hackers, and the features and functionality Kali Linux offers have no match to any of its other alternative (except a few of them). Kali Linux is the Debian based distribution of Linux and intended mainly for penetration testing and digital forensics. Now that we have an understanding of what a terminal in Kali Linux is intended for let us see a brief history of Kali Linux.

If the terminal is for the machine itself, it can be thought of as a GUI which allows user to execute tasks and if one does SSH into another Kali Linux server, terminal acts as a mediator of connection. In the current scenario, terminals are an interface which allows users to execute commands for a utility and machine, irrespective of wherever it is located, responds to the command and completes the task. The machine itself used to sit in a place where people didn’t visit and interacted via this terminal. Kali Linux Terminal is defined as a software representation of physical terminals that were available years back when computers used to be multi-user systems that universities and big corporations owned.
