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Parrot

Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS) is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.

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SmartOS

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9).

Technical Specs Comparison
ParrotSmartOS
Debian (Stable)BaseSolaris
apt / deb, flatpakPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
7.2Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
May 9, 2026Release DateJune 11, 2026
ARM64ARMhfRISC-Vx86_64
Architecture
ARM64ARMhfRISC-Vx86_64
EnlightenmentKDE PlasmaLXQtMATENo Desktop
Desktops
EnlightenmentKDE PlasmaLXQtMATENo Desktop