Netrunner Rolling 2018.08 Has been released, Manjaro Based
The Netrunner team has published a new snapshot of the distribution's Manjaro-based Rolling edition. The new snapshot, Netrunner 2018.08 "Rolling", features updated KDE Plasma packages, improves GTK+ application integration into the default Plasma desktop and upgrades the Krita drawing software.
What is Netrunner Linux ?
It is, by its name, a continously updated distribution, that gets its updates from Manjaro after some thouroughly testing. The Rolling Release also is based on “pacman” instead of “apt” and features the following software components compared to its Debian based cousin:
Compared to 2018.01 these are the main updates:
- KDE Plasma 5.13.3
- KDE Frameworks 5.48
- KDE Applications 18.04
- Qt 5.11.1
- Linux Kernel 4.17
- Firefox Quantum 61.0
- Thunderbird 52.5
and many more…
GTK Apps now use Kwin borders integrating nicely with the rest of the Plasma desktop environment. Krita is shipped as 4.x release, which got some nice overhauls and features compared to previous version. System Settings - Plasma Tweaks: Using the new sidebar Layout, we sorted all the revamped UI-related KCM modules into one section called 'Plasma Tweaks' for easy configuring Plasma to your liking. 2018.08 comes with some new Plasma Theme that has some transparency built in to allow for experimenting with the new Blur options
