December 20, 2011

ROSA Desktop 2011 Extended Edition

Hello!

Today I'm glad to announce our new release ROSA Desktop 2011 Extended Edition (ROSA Desktop EE).  ROSA Desktop EE is based on ROSA/Mandriva 2011 repository including all updates and our new 'restricted' repository. This release is intended for people, who like a full distros (i.e Mandriva PowerPack), geeks, and professionals who use many applications. Also for people who have some problems with a internet access and want to have one .iso image for everything.  What's new in this release towards ROSA Desktop 2011?

General

Pic1. ROSA Desktop 2011 Extended Edition General View
  • Distro base was updated to the current actual repositories state (updated more than 200 packages);
  • restricted repository was used while building .iso images (thus, in the ROSA Desktop EE you can find a full version of MPlayer and several other packages);
  • many european locales was addes into the images that was requested by lot of our foreign users;
  • it was added possibility to install image in 'safe mode' for people, who have problems with installing ROSA Desktop EE in normal mode;
  • it was added possibility to check .iso image and RAM directly from the start menu;
  • it was added possibility to disable Akonadi service directly from start;
  • kernel 2.6.39.4 was used as the default kernel in the distro;


























Pic.2: Checksumming of files on the media

Bugs fixed
  • Thanks to kernel 2.6.39.4 hardware support was considerably increased; 
  • SimpleWelcome was considerably improved: we have fixed many bugs and increased speed of operation (thanks to rewriting some code from Python to C++);
  • it is removed warning message that all contents on HDD will be erased while installing from flash drive;
  • memory leaks in the Nepomuk is fixed;
  • ability to use numeric keyboard in KCalc is added;
  • timezone for Russia and Ukraine is updated;
  • ability to save configurations for 2 monitors as default is added;
  • many minor fixes.
In general, It was fixed more then 120 bugs (12 critial) after release of basic version of ROSA Desktop 2011, which one was released at 29th of August. ROSA Desktop 2011 Extended Edition can be downloaded from here or from one of mirrors.



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