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About ROSA 2012 Marathon

ROSA 2012 Marathon is a LTS (long time support) distribution with garanteed security and software updates during 5 years. Based on Mandriva/ROSA 2011 reposytory with some improverments and updates. Recommened for using on Enterprise sector, SMB and SOHO, were needing not blending edge", but stable software and long time working without reinstalation. It's first release fully builded on ABF system.

You may find additional information about ROSA 2012 Marathon in his tour and some information about found errors and worarounds in Errata page.

Distribution

ROSA 2012 Marathon will distribute as:

1. ROSA 2012 Marathon liveDVD with KDE4 Free Edition i586 and x86_64 bit releases. 2. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveDVD KDE4 Full edition i586 and x86_64 architectures, including non-free components and patent-pending stuffs (lile codecs and some software). It's may be illegal for law using in you countries!

Some additinal releses (may be later).

3. ROSA 2012 Marathon liveCD LXDE Free Edition i586 and x86_64 arch. 4. ROSA 2012 liveCD LXDE Full Edition i586 and x86_64 arch. 5. ROSA 2012 Addon DVD with additional package.

Common components

Kernel and system stack

• Kernel 2.6.26 LTS desktop with/without PAE desktop/notebook and server edition.
• Dracut 17
• Systemd 39
• GCC ???
• Plymouth

Hardware support

• Hardware base for 2012.01.21
• Updated drivers for Intel, NVidia and AMD graphics card with support i3/i5/i7, GF6xxx and lates AMD chips.
• Mesa ??? , DRM ???
• Basic support Nvidia Optimus tecnology with Bumblebee (not including in DVD, but may be installed later from Main repo).
• Updated printers and scaner base

=ROSA system stuff

• Draklive-install ???
• Drakxtools ???
• Drakx-net ???

We make some improverments and updates for this instruments:

• Hardware support for modern components
• Fix errors on installer
• Fix UI and simplyfing installation algorithm

Network

• NetworkManager 0.9.2
• KnetworkManager 0.9
• VPNPPPT 0.3.0

KDE

• KDE 4.8.2 with ROSA patches and fixes
• Rosa theme with working KDE-decorator
• SimpleWelcome
• RocketBar
• Dolphin 2.0

Enterprise stack

• Fixing (and working) instrument for connect with Windows AD domens.
• OpenJDK by default, but you will may install Java/JRE with new package get-java ??????
• LSB support
• Working PERL/Python stack
• Kerberos
• Samba

User software

• Mozilla Firefox 10.0.2 LTS
• Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.2 LTS
• LibreOffice 3.4.5
• Amarok 2.0.5