---
id: 135
title: "Kali Linux 1.0 Release - Moto - The Birth of Kali Linux"
source_domain: kali.org
source_url: "https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-0-release/"
published_at: "2013-03-13T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["linux", "kali-linux", "penetration-testing", "backtrack", "debian", "release-history"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/135"
lang: en
---

# Kali Linux 1.0 Release - Moto - The Birth of Kali Linux

## Summary

The birth of Kali 1.0 (Moto): after seven years of BackTrack, the team scrapped its old architecture, chose Debian over Ubuntu, dropped /pentest for FHS compliance, and started afresh.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** kali.org
- **Published:** 2013-03-13T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-1-0-0-release/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/135