Netrunner is a solid distro. It's a lot more stable than it used to be (you can choose a Debian or Arch package base) and its developers are hellbent on creating a cutting edge Plasma 5 environment that people want to actually use. I don't use it as a daily driver but it's worth checking out.
I once used CentOS for a Minecraft-server, but despite it lacking so many default utilities, it didn't apear faster to me than any "complete" distribution. Did I do something wrong or is it meant to be like that?
A server distribution comes with a minimal pre-installed package set as there is no need for GUIs, etc.
However, It comes with just about everything you need and anything else is generally in the repositories. (Adding the EPEL repository can sometimes be helpful as well) :)
A server's console isn't really going to feel faster than the console on your desktop distribution.
Could you elaborate on that? It is an enterprise class server distribution so that shouldn't be the case.
I use it on one of my servers and I don't believe I've ever run into that. I suppose it depends on what you are trying to do with it though.
Nothing that sets it aside from other KDE-based distributions aside from coming with its own Plasma theme and some nifty stuff pre-installed, like Yakuake. I recommend it as an ideal pre-configured distribution. It has little fluff aside from the eye candy that defines its branding, and it provides a good jumping off point for intermediate users that want to move away from APT but perhaps might not be ready to roll their own system with Arch or something.
tl;dr: Nothing special aside from being super cool out of the box and telling your friends that you're on a distro called Netrunner. I mean, come on.
Netrunner is a solid distro. It's a lot more stable than it used to be (you can choose a Debian or Arch package base) and its developers are hellbent on creating a cutting edge Plasma 5 environment that people want to actually use. I don't use it as a daily driver but it's worth checking out.
This is the first time I hear about it. Does Netrunner have anything "special" besides beeing a preconfigure Desktop OS?
Thank you for the recomendation through, I'll consider it ;)
I've heard good things about Netrunner (which is a KDE centric distribution) in the past.
Most of the recomendatios seem to be desktop-os centric, do you maybe have a recomendation for something that is maybe used a server os?
If you want a decent server distribution I recommend either Debian or CentOS.
I once used CentOS for a Minecraft-server, but despite it lacking so many default utilities, it didn't apear faster to me than any "complete" distribution. Did I do something wrong or is it meant to be like that?
Which default utilities are you referring too?
A server distribution comes with a minimal pre-installed package set as there is no need for GUIs, etc. However, It comes with just about everything you need and anything else is generally in the repositories. (Adding the EPEL repository can sometimes be helpful as well) :)
A server's console isn't really going to feel faster than the console on your desktop distribution.
Yes, I know that - what I meant when I said that CentOS seems to be missing some Realy basic Unix commands.
Could you elaborate on that? It is an enterprise class server distribution so that shouldn't be the case.
I use it on one of my servers and I don't believe I've ever run into that. I suppose it depends on what you are trying to do with it though.
Nothing that sets it aside from other KDE-based distributions aside from coming with its own Plasma theme and some nifty stuff pre-installed, like Yakuake. I recommend it as an ideal pre-configured distribution. It has little fluff aside from the eye candy that defines its branding, and it provides a good jumping off point for intermediate users that want to move away from APT but perhaps might not be ready to roll their own system with Arch or something.
tl;dr: Nothing special aside from being super cool out of the box and telling your friends that you're on a distro called Netrunner. I mean, come on.
I agree that NetRunner is indeed a cool name.
Btw, does yakuake have any advantages over guake? I have been using guake forever without knowing it exists.