ROSA DESKTOP 2012 Alpha

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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