SageOS v5.1-beta7

SageOS v5.1-beta7

Security-focused Linux distro (Debian bookworm base) with categorical "mission packs" — networking, web, password, wireless, sniffing, forensics, AD — installable via sage-pkg and a friendly sage-security whiptail menu.

Back to the actual point of the distro

Previous betas had accidentally shipped with every mission pack pre-installed for testing convenience — which just made this Kali with extra steps. That's fixed:

• ISO size: 232MB, down from 503MB. The base image now only ships core system tools (fastfetch, sage-pkg, sage-security, standard Debian userland) plus the Active Directory pack (the one category intentionally marked "builtin" in categories.conf, since those tools don't come from apt).
• networking, web, password, wireless, sniffing, forensics are no longer pre-installed — run sage-pkg install <category> (or use the sage-security menu) to pull them in on demand, live, from Debian's repos.
• Fixed a real bug found while stripping this down: sage-pkg status was reading stale marker files and reporting packs as installed even after their packages were removed. Cleaned up state to match reality.
• Verified boot end-to-end on this leaner image in both BIOS/legacy and UEFI (OVMF) modes — no regressions from the beta5/beta6 boot fixes.

Try it

sage-pkg list
sage-pkg install networking
sage-security

x86_64 only — QEMU (Linux) and VirtualBox are the supported/tested targets.

Download

• ISO (232MB): see assets below
• Torrent: sageos-5.1-beta7.iso.torrent (HTTP webseed enabled)
• Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:dcf02805b892267f388d2295d64960a64eb4552f&dn=sageos-5.1-beta7.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fzackmsa777-a11y%2Fsageos%2Freleases%2Fdownload%2Fv5.1-beta7%2Fsageos-5.1-beta7.iso

Still labeled beta7 — pending your confirmation before promoting to stable.