Netrunner

A German-developed, KDE-Plasma-focused distribution built directly on Debian, offering a polished, curated Plasma experience with extra multimedia codecs preinstalled.

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Based on

Debian

First released

2010

Package manager

APT (.deb)

Desktop environments

KDE Plasma

Netrunner is developed by Blue Systems, a company that has also funded significant work on KDE itself and on Kubuntu, and it channels that KDE expertise into a Debian-based distribution tuned specifically around Plasma. It ships proprietary multimedia codecs and common plugins out of the box (something Debian itself avoids for licensing reasons), aiming for a more immediately usable desktop for everyday media consumption. Historically the project also offered an Ubuntu-based rolling edition ('Netrunner Rolling'), though its Debian-based 'Desktop' edition is the actively maintained flagship today.

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