Release notes ROSA Marathon 2012

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About ROSA 2012 Marathon

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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.

Release sheduelle

Relese	Planned day	Release day
Public Beta	30.03.2012
RC	9.04.2012
Internal release	13.04.2012
Public release	16.04.2012

Distribution

ROSA 2012 Marathon will ne available in the following editions:

1. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveDVD KDE4 Free Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures

2. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveDVD KDE4 Full Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures, including non-free components and proprietary software (such as multimedia codecs). Note that laws of some countries may forbid usage of some of these components!

Some more editions can be available later:

3. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveCD LXDE Free Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures

4. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveCD LXDE Full Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures

5. ROSA 2012 Addon DVD with additional packages.

Common components

Kernel and system stack

• Kernel 3.0.26 LTS desktop with/without PAE desktop/notebook and server edition.
• Dracut 17
• Systemd 39
• GCC 4.6.1
• udev-173

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 7.11
• 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
• VPNPPTP 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-jre6-oracle, get-jre7-oracle, get-jdk6-oracle, get-jdk7-oracle.
• 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