Netrunner 17 Linux OS Launches with a Gorgeous KDE Plasma 5.4.3 Desktop | Linux Today

Netrunner 17 Linux OS Launches with a Gorgeous KDE Plasma 5.4.3 Desktop

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Marius Nestor
Nov 23, 2015

Based on the latest stable release of the Kubuntu Linux distribution and powered by Linux kernel 4.2, Netrunner 17 “Horizon” features a darkish, beautiful implementation of the recently released KDE Plasma 5.4.3 desktop environment, which also includes the KDE Applications 15.08.2 software and KDE Frameworks 5.15.0 collection of add-ons for the Qt 5 GUI toolkit.

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Marius Nestor

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