Linux ROSA R4 "Desktop Fresh" is released

 

Linux ROSA R4 "Desktop Fresh" is released

ROSA is a Russian company developing a variety of Linux-based solutions. Its flagship product, ROSA Desktop, is a Linux distribution featuring a highly customised KDE desktop and a number of modifications designed to enhance the user-friendliness of the working environment. The company also develops an "Enterprise Server" edition of ROSA which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The desktop enviroment
KDE v4.13.3 (you may install KDE 4.14.1 from the KDE backports http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru/kde4_backports_personal/repository/rosa2014.1/repo and the offical KDE update till the v4.14 will be available after the KDE 4.14.3 release)
Phonon 4.8.0
Phonon-GStreamer and Qt-GStreamer use GStreamer API 1.0
the default Network connections utility is Plasma NM (you may install knetworkmanager from the repos)
the system screen settings are handled by kscreen
TimeFrame switched from Nepomuk to Baloo
support for grouping together the less used applications in SimpleWelcome

User applications

• Firefox 32.0.2 (you may install the classic interface Firefox ESR 24.8.0 from the repos)
• Mozilla Thunderbird 31.0
• Clementine 1.2.3
• VLC 2.1.5
• XBMC 13.2
• Digikam 4.3.0
• LibreOffice 4.3.1
• FFmpeg 2.3.3
• Pipelight https://launchpad.net/pipelight(fom the Restricted repos)
• the testing version of the Fresh Player Plugin https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerpluginis available from the Contrib
• check out the experimental version of ROSA Freeze http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/ROSA_Freezethe rollback utility, keeping your system safe from those weird developers' 'bad days'

The system

• GCC 4.9.2_2014.08 Linaro
• Glibc 2.19
• FPC 2.6.4
• Lazarus 1.2.4
• LLVM/Clang 3.5
• Lua 5.2
• OCaml 4.01.0
• Perl 5.18.2
• Python 2.7.8
• Python3 3.4.1
• Ruby 2.1.2
• NetworkManager 0.9.10
• ModemManager 1.4.0
• Samba 4.1.9
• Xorg 1.15, Mesa 10.2.7
• MariaDB instead of MySQL

Kernel&drivers

• kernel 3.14.x (3.14.15 by default after installation/upgrade) with support for BFQ I/O scheduler v7r5
• Nvidia proprietary modules: 340.x, 304.x, 173.x (XFdrake installs the most appropriate driver automatically)
• better support for hybrid graphics Nvidia/Intel

Minimal system requirements

• 2GB RAM for 64-bit systems, 1280MB for 32-bit
• 10GB disk space

Download:
ROSA.FRESH.KDE.R4.x86_64.iso (1,691MB, MD5, torrent, pkglist).