PLASMA R9

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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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  Plasma 5 Desktop Environment

Specifics of Plasma 5 in the R9 Release

• KDE Frameworks 5.30.0
• Plasma 5.9.4
• KDE Applications 16.12.3
• Qt 5.8.0
• 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: 05b47fe17d95ca08295d869581759b33)
• 64bit ISO (md5sum: 7e83b16bb02cb295d984de97055e24cc)

Additional Images for Specific Cases

• 32bit ISO (md5sum: 5b62bcc8eac5d7cfb3fe7f29ad62f6ee) - for machines with 32bit UEFI
• 64bit ISO (md5sum: cb1628e5f7233930add9cd70d87a9c3b) - for old machines that experience problems with booting UEFI images

All images are also available on Yandex CDN.