Welcome to ParrotOS Introduction

This documentation has been possible thanks to ParrotOS community members's work. If you want to join us and collaborate with this project, we invite you to join in our Telegram chat group. You can find us on our Facebook group too. Also, if you find some mistake (hey! we're humans), you can write an email to: team@parrotsec.org or open a merge request in the official documentation repository. it will be analyzed and reviewed as soon as possible.

What is Parrot?

Parrot Security (ParrotOS, Parrot) is a Free and Open source GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian Stable designed for security experts, developers and privacy aware people.

GNU/Linux Basics

GNU/Linux is an operating system built over the years thanks to the contributions of many developers around the world. Few of its peculiarities will be described here.

Download Parrot

ParrotOS is available for download here.

Community & Contributors

Parrot was born and continues to be a fully open-source project,