More than 600 penetration testing tools included: Details on what’s included are on the Kali Tools site.Now, it presentes a complete penetration testing distribution/framework leveraging many features of Debian GNU/Linux. Therefore, most of the packages available in Kali Linux come straight from this Debian repository.
Kali comes as a result of a continuous evolution of the platform, from WHoppiX to WHAX, to BackTrack.