The Netrunner team is happy to announce the release of Netrunner 26 'Twilight – 64-bit ISO image. Netrunner 26 is based on Debian 13 'Trixie' and ships with all the latest security updates and updated stable software. ... New features in Netrunner release include: Linux Kernel 6.16.12 (Trixie's default is 6.12); XLibre Xserver; Plasma 6.3.6 and KDE Frameworks 6.13.0; Plasma X11 will use XLibre; Pipewire and Wireplumber; Unified Netrunner packages that make it easier to handle upgrades; Updated Netrunner-specific components - Samba-mounter (rewritten for Qt 6 and PolicyKit), Artwork (new SDDM theme, updated Global theme and Plasma theme for Plasma 6), About-extended KCM (fully compatible with Qt 6 and KF6); Stacher7, a graphical interface for yt-dlp; improved hardware support for recent AMD and Intel GPUs, sound and wireless chips; translations for Firefox and LibreOffice (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Chinese (simplified and traditional); power-profiles-daemon for dynamic performance selection.
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To be honest, I have a very fussy Acer all-in-one desktop. Trying different Linux distros is very hit and miss, and previous Debian-based distros either left me without sound, screen tearing, vertical lines across the screen (which panics me as the Acer is almost brand new) or no wireless access. So it was a 'Ho Hum' when I read that a new version of Netrunner had been released, but I thought I'd give it a try to see what didn't work. What a surprise! Everything worked out of the box, and it is a very easy to use and navigate distribution. Very responsive too. I pressed the left-hand button to have a look at the installed software and was delighted to find that a new way of viewing contents was installed. It seems a more logical way of doing things, and hats off to the developers for not sticking to the normal way of setting the operating system up. Having setting up Netrunner with the apps I use, I transferred my files and folders and am happily typing this review on it. I truly believe my need to distro-hop every day (yes, I know) is now over. It is that good.
