A new update has been released for Netrunner

Jan 25, 2015 17:21 GMT  ·  By

Netrunner 14.1, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop environment, is now available for download and it comes with a number of important improvements.

There are two different versions of Netrunner and they are actually using two systems. One is based on Kubuntu and the other one on Manjaro (Arch Linux), so users might be a little bit confused. In fact, the Kubuntu one, also codenamed Frontier, is an LTS version and the developers have promised to keep it alive for a long time.

The other Netrunner that users might have come across is the rolling edition and that's the one using Manajaro. It's not an LTS version and it's pretty different. It also comes with another version number, which is 2014.09.1.

Netrunner, a new Linux kernel and other upgrades

This is not exactly a huge upgrade, but users might be able to notice some of the more important changes and improvements that have been done. In fact, if you already have the previous 14.0 version installed, all you need to do is to keep your system up to date. This particular release is made for people who want to install the latest version available from scratch.

"KDE SC was updated from 4.13 to version 4.14, which improves the new semantic desktop search Baloo which replaced Nepomuk. Samba-Mounter can now automount and access password protected samba shares (after adding authentication user/password, the protected share will show up after reboot). On the application side, we feature the latest version of Firefox 35.0, now directly imported from 'moz-plasma', a new PPA specifically dedicated to updating a 'plasmified' and well integrated version of both Firefox and eventually also upcoming Thunderbird for the Plasma desktop," reads the official announcement.

The developers have explained that Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.13.0.43, Firefox 35.0 has been implemented by default, Thunderbird has been upgraded to version 31.4, and some of the other apps have been upgraded as well.

A complete list of changes and improvements can be found in the official announcement. You can download Netrunner 14.1 right now from Softpedia. There are two versions of this distribution, one for 32-bit and another for 64-bit.

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