I'm a student and im looking at creating a cyberdeck with a custom OS inspired by Parrot OS from scratch. im thinking of naming it Zen OS and I would just like some help with where to start and what applications I should use.
I'm a very new Linux user and have a lot to learn. Could someone explain this to me and perhaps help me out?
Parrot 7.3 is out, and this release is about the system rather than the toolset.
The headline is performance. We now ship an opt-in repository of packages recompiled for newer CPU baselines, x86-64-v3 on amd64 and ARMv8.2-A on arm64. On compute-heavy work like compression, encryption, hashing and media encoding, that runs somewhere between 20% and 50% faster, and security updates keep arriving immediately because package selection is driven purely by version comparison.
On the usability side, the menu system has been rewritten in Go. Every tool now appears in the menu and installs with a single click, with no shell scripts and no leftover dependencies.
There are also official Vagrant boxes for the Home and Security editions, so a clean, reproducible Parrot instance is one vagrant up away, plus a new Firefox start page that collects no data.
Full release notes: https://parrotsec.org/blog/2026-06-30-parrot-7.3-release-notes/
Upgrade with: sudo parrot-upgrade
Parrot OS 7.3 has just been released and now ships whith opt-in repositories with several packages optimized for amd64v3 and arm64v8.2
the documentation page does not simply explain how to enable them, but also goes into the implementation details and describes how it was achieved https://www.parrotsec.org/docs/configuration/parrot-optimized-builds
has anyone tried it yet?
Hello all,
I opened the firefox browser this morning and found a very different homepage to the one I'm used to. It even had an option for searching on Google even though I disabled it a long time ago. It's generally a very "busy" page. It's ok, though I love the page with the big stylized blue and green parrot.
More confusing is the fact that there's the option to download the 7.2 version. I ran the command
cat /etc/os-release
and got the result
"VERSION="7.3 (echo)"
Can someone please clarify this for me? Thank you in advance.
I installed the latest Parrot Security. In menu I see a lot of [not installed].
Is there a way to install all tools at once? I already checked if parrot-tools-full us installed and it is
