Without giving away the details of my upcoming review...
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| Author | Content |
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| caitlyn May 15, 2012 1:05 PM EDT |
This is a distro that could give Ubuntu a run for its money in terms of desktop mind share and market share. |
| claudecat May 15, 2012 3:31 PM EDT |
Looking forward to the review Caitlyn; in fact ROSA was among the distros I recommended on DW this week for attention. I'm hoping it will prove to be better than the latest Mandriva, which, for me at least, was a disappointment. |
| caitlyn May 15, 2012 3:34 PM EDT |
I agree with you about Mandriva 2011. ROSA Labs have been distancing themselves from Mandriva in more ways than one. One little hint: the drakxtools from Mandriva aren't in ROSA Desktop 2012. They are (with only one or two exceptions) completely gone. |
| JaseP May 16, 2012 9:18 AM EDT |
I'm actually more interested in their Rosa TV solution, which I'm guessing is a rebranding of MythTV or a VLC with VDR combination. But, their regular distro looks like a nice, clean KDE implementation. |
| GERGE May 16, 2012 9:47 AM EDT |
Before I download it, does it have Gnome 3.4 or 3.2? |
| JaseP May 16, 2012 9:53 AM EDT |
It's KDE... |
| GERGE May 16, 2012 10:45 AM EDT |
I am asking about repos. |
| JaseP May 16, 2012 10:51 AM EDT |
If someone has downloaded it, they could give you the location of the report servers, and you could search for the included file lists. |
| Fettoosh May 16, 2012 11:34 AM EDT |
@GERGE, This should have some info. for you RosaLab Edited: In case you missed it (it's on the same line as item 3 of may be in the future) 4. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveCD Gnome Free Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures. |
| Fettoosh May 16, 2012 11:45 AM EDT |
Hmmm, Is it time to start certifying Linux Distros? |
| gus3 May 16, 2012 12:11 PM EDT |
Some of them are already certifiable. |
| Fettoosh May 16, 2012 12:31 PM EDT |
Quoting:Some of them are already certifiable. True, and what I meant is "a clean bill of health". I think It is becoming a necessity since not everyone is qualified, can, or able to do that. |
| GERGE May 16, 2012 12:45 PM EDT |
It says Gnome, I've seen that but there is no information about the version. That is what I am asking. But I have learned it, ROSA has Gtk+ 2.24.5 so that means Gnome 2, right? |
| Fettoosh May 16, 2012 1:00 PM EDT |
Quoting:ROSA has Gtk+ 2.24.5 so that means Gnome 2, right? Not necessarily, Gtk are tools & libraries per quote below, they could be used by both Gnome 2 & 3. Edited: But I believe there is a Gtk 3.0 that is used by Gnome 3. Quoting:GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. |
| caitlyn May 16, 2012 1:19 PM EDT |
As of now there is no GNOME in the repositories. If you want GNOME then ROSA is the wrong distro for you. |
| Koriel May 16, 2012 1:23 PM EDT |
But they are working on an LXDE version. I tried the LXDE beta it was buggy but looked great, it will be one to watch. |
| caitlyn May 16, 2012 1:26 PM EDT |
I agree with you, Koriel. However, their latest blog post demoted the LXDE variant from an official version to a "community" version. As a company ROSA Labs is only supporting KDE. |
| caitlyn May 16, 2012 1:04 PM EDT |
@GERGE: The GNOME packages are now in the repository. It's GNOME 2.32. There is still no GNOME 3. I don't expect there will be. They also have LXDE, Enlightenment, IceWM and WindowMaker packages. There is an Xfce folder as well but it isn't properly populated yet. |
| claudecat May 16, 2012 6:53 PM EDT |
Just installed ROSA - seems to be Mandriva 2011 without all the bugs and with a Russian accent (noticeable in Firefox at least). Looks good and stable so far, though not without some quirks. |
| caitlyn May 16, 2012 8:41 PM EDT |
ROSA has an awful lot of unique apps and design bits. As far as quirks are concerned, the bugs and issues I found were mainly related to the installer. Oh, and yes, the wrong default language/locale in Firefox. Once installed and configured it is very stable. One thing I did notice is that while the beta had a lot of Mandriva 2011 packages in the repository those have largely been replaced with updated ROSA 2012 packages. It's forked from Mandriva, yes, but it's fairly far removed from Mandriva 2011 at this point. |
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