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Fedora Security Lab

An official Fedora Lab spin preloaded with security auditing, forensics, and testing tools on top of Fedora's standard RPM base and Xfce desktop.

Based on

Fedora

First released

2011

Package manager

DNF (.rpm)

Desktop environments

Xfce

Fedora Security Lab is one of Fedora's official 'Labs' spins -- the same trusted Fedora base and package repositories, pre-selected for a specific audience, in this case security auditors, digital forensics practitioners, and educators teaching security courses. It's a lighter-touch alternative to a dedicated distribution like Kali for users who are already comfortable in the Fedora/RPM ecosystem and would rather add a security toolset to that familiar base than adopt an entirely separate Debian-based distribution. As a live image it can also be run without installing, for one-off forensic or testing sessions.
MirrorNest doesn't mirror distro ISOs — installation media should always come straight from the project's own official download page (linked above), so you get the correct checksum/signature to verify against.