PwnPi is an extremely mature penetration testing platform for the Raspberry Pi. At the time of writing this book, many people in the community claimed it is a more stable environment than Kali Linux specifically on the Raspberry Pi. However, we believe there is a shift in supporting Kali Linux for the Raspberry Pi rather than PwnPi because of the existing popularity and namesake of Kali Linux. Some people might call us biased, but hey, this is our second book on Kali Linux. The following screenshot is the PwnPi 3.0 introductory image when booting it up:

PwnPi brings some unique features such as support for over two hundred tools. PwnPi is built on Debian Wheezy optimized for the Raspberry Pi and has simple scripts to automatically configure reverse shell connections. You can learn more about PwnPi at pwnpi.sourceforge.net.

Let's look at installing and running PwnPi on a Raspberry Pi in the following manner: