ROSA Desktop 2012 Draft

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Draft to ROSA 2012 Desktop

Distribution is named "2012.1" to denote that it was released after ROSA Marathon (see Naming Policy for details).

Arch

• i586
• x86_64

Release

• Free - only FOSS components
• EE - FOSS + non-free + restricted components

Basesystem

• Kernel - 3.4.X
• Systemd 183 + udev (internal implementation)
• dracut 0.18
• services - minimization of sysvinit
• GCC 4.7.x
• Pulseaudio 2.x
• Prelink enabling
• Grub2
• rpm-5.4.x

System service

• CUPS 1.5.x
• Samba 4.0.x
• NFS
• Chrony (replace ntp) (akdengi - I have initial implimentation)

Network

• NetworkManager 0.9.4
• KnetworkManager 0.9.0.2
• VPNPPTP 0.3.6

Drivers

• Latest stable versions ( Free and non-free )

Framework

• gtk2+ = 2.24.x
• gtk3+ = 3.4.x
• QT 4.8.x

Desktop

• KDE4 4.9.x
  • KDE 4.9.0 is to be released on 25th of July; frozen RC should be available on June 26th (schedule)
  • Akonadi/Nepomuk diagnostics
  • Shorten KDE login time ( from KDM login screen to desktop )

Installation

• Improving installer start ( possible chainload to grub2 to improve hardware support (UEFI )).
• VNC install
• Network install ( PXE )
• Raid devices support
• Better file system support
• LVM support

ROSA/Mandriva system components

• drakx-net (Mageia/Mandriva sync with ROSA patch)
• drakxtools (Mageia/Mandriva sync with ROSA patch)

Follow this Drakxtools_Future_Directions

Software

See List_of_end-user_applications_that_are_supported_by_ROSA

SystemD enhancment

http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/cpufreq/

General improvements

• Speed up system start

Repository improvement

• cleaned main
• rebuilt and fresh contrib
• Possible improvement of restricted with some cool restricted apps.

Community requests and propositions

• Installer encryption support
• Support for jackd, Qtractor
• Realtime kernel for sound recordings
• Unified branding package with artwork
• Kickstart support
• network install