blackarch VS etcher

Hi, BA repository content is mainly maintained by noptrix and me (noraj) nowadays (also other persons in the past). You can check the contributor graph. Anunna made only 3 commits and is more about community management on reddit and matrix than a package maintainer so don't fear backdoors lol

Kali Linux is fantastic but there are alternatives like Black-Arch

https://www.blackarch.org/ is the official BlackArch web site.

BlackArch - Arch GNU/Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.

for me, arch have aur which have rich package and some package are from github. if you want to use for pentesting i think you can use blackarch, it has preinstalled tools for pentesting.

There seems to be two different existing blackarch distributions.. https://www.blackarch.org/

Do you honestly believe they would publish the source on GitHub https://github.com/balena-io/etcher if it was?

A while ago I started getting error messages when running dnf up, saying that the metadata for the repos balena-etcher uses. Looking at their github page, I see that there is an open issue about this, where they say they can no longer afford to host the package at cloudsmith, but there is no info about how to work around the issue.

BalenaEtcher, the portable appimage version can be run from anywhere, https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.18.4/balenaEtcher-1.18.4-x64.AppImage

Is recommend trying the official appimage from here

(this is a link to Balena Etcher: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.18.4/balenaEtcher-1.18.4-x64.AppImage Download, go to properties, enable 'executable' permission, double click)

Look at : https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases