ROSA DESKTOP 2012 Alpha

Note: Alpha version is intended for testing, not for primary use!

Editions

The Alpha version is presented in two editions:

1. i586 LiveCD KDE4 with proprietary and non-free components
2. x86-64 LiveCD KDE4 with proprietary and non-free components

Major features

System components

• rpm 5.4.9
• gcc 4.7 Linaro
• kernel 3.5.1
• systemd+udev 189
• qt4 4.8.2
• glib2 2.32.3
• gtk+2 2.24.11
• gtk+3 3.4.4
• libpng15 1.5.11
• boost 1.50.0
• ffmpeg 0.11.1
• perl 5.14
• php 5.4.6
• ruby 1.9.3-p194

Desktop environments

• KDE 4.9.0 with ROSA additions

Known problems of Alpha release

• Filesystem can hang
• Not all ROSA patches for KDE are adopted and applied
  • KDM is not updated to the freshest version
• Many user-level applications ARE NOT UPDATED! User-level software will be updated in Beta1
• Quiet a few errors in gtk/gtk2/gtk3
• Contrib is not updated and rebuilt yet
• Desktop environments other than KDE4 don't work
• New graphical themes are not applied
• Some Rosa Control Center tools and wizard might not work
• Grub2 is not integrated yet

You are welcome to discuss Desktop 2012 Alpha and ask question at ROSALab forum: http://forum.rosalab.ru and in ROSA-users mailing list: http://lists.rosalab.ru/mailman/listinfo/rosa-users