Revision as of 13:05, 30 November 2017

General Notes

Plasma 5 - is the fifth and current generation of the desktop environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. Plasma 5 is the successor of KDE 4.

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  Display manager

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  Startup

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  Desktop and file manager

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  Resources

Specifics of Plasma 5 in the R10 Release

• KDE Frameworks 5.38.0
• Plasma 5.10.5
• KDE Applications 17.08.2
• Qt 5.9.3
• ROSA brand-name decorations, style and ergonomics accompanied by Breeze theme
• Firefox is considered to be a primarily web browser, but it is supplemented by Chromium
• Default installation includes ROSA Media Player и Clementine, LibreOffice suite, KTorrent client, GIMP image editor, Audacity audio editor, EasyTAG mp3 tag editor and a lot of other useful applications
• PartitionManager is used to manage disk partitions
• quick-usb-formatter program is available for easy USB stick formatting
• ROSA-specific tools (such as software manager) are integrated into KDE Control Center
• Most of KDE applications are now based on KDE Frameworks 5
• Besides standard Plasma applets, our images include rosa-expo (aka "Show all desktops")
• Until we finish SimpleWelcome porting to Plasma 5, Kicker launcher is used by default
• To decrease resource consuming, Baloo indexing service is disabled by default

Download

Main Images

• 32bit ISO (md5sum: ???)
• 64bit ISO (md5sum: ???)

Additional Images for Specific Cases

• 32bit ISO (md5sum: ???) - for machines with 32bit UEFI
• 64bit ISO (md5sum: ???) - for old machines that experience problems with booting UEFI images

All images are also available on Yandex CDN.