I love the OS… Can you please make it, in any way, more stable?
It keeps hanging and stays frozen with a blank screen every so often but backlight stays on; no buttons work…
The only way to reset is by pulling the batteries.
Any suggestions?
Try the Parrot security OS and see if it hangs, I’ve had no problems with this on my Pi4 version. I also haven’t run most of the included tools.
Thank you for that.
I would if I could…
Please see my most recent topic… 
I may be wrong, but it sounds like you may be drawing too much power from the USB bus, I can see in you posted pic that you have a few external devices in use at the same time. There is a post linked below covering this topic that may be of interest.
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There’s nothing special about Rex’s version of Kali than the other versions of his linux builds. It just has different default installed apps. Pretty much any of them will work in any other linux. Like we tell people on the kali discord and forums, linux is linux. Try another of rex’s images and see if it does the same thing.
I would argue rex’s kali isn’t true kali since it uses the same kernel as all of rex’s other images which doesn’t have the same modules enabled as a kali kernel.
kernel suprematist detected
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The only extra Kali’s kernel has is the nexmon drivers installed. I’m pretty sure they’re not in the pi5 image though.
For a long time in technical circles Kali has been a dirty word as it is in the best of times a Linux distribution that has the kitchen sink thrown into it in terms of included software, meaning it is bloated and slow compared to other Debian-based (or nowadays Arch-based?) distributions, and in the worst of times will immediately give you away as hostile because everyone and their aunt knows the Kali logo means “this person is either cracking something or an actor pretending to do so”. It is (or was) expressly not meant for use as a daily driver and you would be much better off taking an Ubuntu or Manjaro distribution and installing aircrack and john. With either pacman or apt it is easy to install Kali’s Linux kernel package to glean whatever benefits you need from it.
I saw lots of tutorials about people using kali as a docker container (and then just tell claude code to do whatever you want). Seemed like a good way to use kali without beeing hated for trying to be a 1337h4x0r
I’m far from being a hacker and my skills are no where near elite.
I think I’ve mastered WiFi penetration testing… 
Now I want to learn how to break the bank lol… 
Can’t wait to show you guys the Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager when it arrives! 
The thing about these 313375|<1|_|_Z is, the separation between “hacker” and “kiddie” has always been talent minus tools; doing more with less is more impressive than doing morer with >$200 Hollywood props. Wardriving was a $10 activity using a butchered WiFi router and a Pringles can, PS2 hacking was a means to use $0.50 CDs to run custom code on the console, and hell, in the 50s AM radio kits were a bunch of copper wire and a rock you got from the Radio Shack. You can’t buy your way to being skilled. You have to sit down with books (or, ideally, pirated DjVus) and learn the low-level theory so that you understand these systems on a fundamental (even molecular) level and grasp the “copper is copper, waves are waves” principle enough to actually creatively start literally hacking scrap metal and cave trimmings into your exo suit that shoots lasers and travels in time. That’s why the real hackers have always been impoverished, scrappy underdogs - they had to build their own Ethernet cables and find novel ways to shove bits down the wire because it was the only way they could afford to solve the problems that interested them.
it’s almost 2026. I talk to Kali Linux like I talk to K.I.T.T. and it h4x0rs you at my command/will!
Most people tend to forget this that everyone (if he has the right hardware or paid API access to a modern LLM) is now a hacker … ofc knowledge means more skill (when the LLM is not smart enough).
I wonder when this gets nerfed by the “Big 5” of AI and we gotta buy our own APUs 
llm’s aren’t ever smart enough. 
yeah, but pour some knowledge into it (look into agents or concepts like SKILLS for claude), give it context and the right toolkit and boom
Hi everyone, @Rex
I’m using a uConsole with CM5, running Kali Linux and ParrotOS (from REX) on a 128 GB SD card (even tried on 32gb)
Boot is fast and the system works fine in general, but I’m facing a consistent issue
Whenever I try to download anything or open browser after few mins the system completely freezes and the only option left is to remove the batteries to reboot. This happens with both Browser downloads and terminal even for git clone. This happens every single time i used my uconsole.
Things I’ve checked/observed:
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SD card seems fine (no boot or general I/O issues)
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Happens with both GUI and CLI tools
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Power is currently from batteries (haven’t tested with external power yet)
Has anyone experienced similar behavior with CM5 + Kali/ParrotOS on uConsole?
Thanks in advance
Test on mains power.
Try a different SD card.
Does the same thing happen on plain Debian?
Hi @Rex
I tried on different SD card, one i have 128gb from Kingston and 32gb from Sony
I haven’t tried it with plain Debian, but initially i tried with Kali for almost a couple of weeks then i switched to Parrot but nothing has changed.
Does it freeze with both distros? Has it done it since the beginning?