ROSA Desktop Fresh R2 is a regular update of the ROSA Fresh platform. The R series of distributions is targeted to those users who looks for fresh and full-functional software. This series is developed by ROSA with significant help of community. The release includes all updates, fixes and improvements implemented since the time the previous R1 version was released.

Users who already work in ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 are able to update their systems to ROSA Desktop Fresh R2 from official repositories.

The R2 release is the latest update release planned by ROSA for the ROSA Fresh platform. In the second quarter of 2014, we are planning to present a new platform - ROSA Fresh 2.

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Changes in technical part in comparison with previous release

Improvements in installer

Desktop Environment

The main Desktop Environment - KDE - has been updated to version 4.11.3. Besides updates, a set of issues and regressions were fixed (including several upstream problems). In addition, we have updated Phonon to version 4.7.0 and fixed a set of localization issues.

In the nearest future we will present ROSA Desktop Fresh R2 editions with GNOME and LXDE desktop environments.

User-level software updates

Popular user applications were updated to their latest versions:

System part

Systemd

Systemd has been updated to version 204. The following subsystems have been migrated to systemd: