ROSA Desktop 2012 Draft
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Draft to ROSA 2012 Desktop
Distribution is named "2012.1" to denote that it was released after ROSA Marathon (see Naming Policy for details).
Contents
Arch
- i586
- x86_64
Release
- Free - only FOSS components
- EE - FOSS + non-free + restricted components
Basesystem
- Kernel - 3.4.X
- Systemd 183 + udev (internal implementation)
- dracut 0.18
- services - minimization of sysvinit
- GCC 4.7.x
- Pulseaudio 2.x
- Prelink enabling
- Grub2
- rpm-5.4.x
System service
- CUPS 1.5.x
- Samba 4.0.x
- NFS
- Chrony (replace ntp) (akdengi - I have initial implimentation)
Network
- NetworkManager 0.9.4
- KnetworkManager 0.9.0.2
- VPNPPTP 0.3.6
Drivers
- Latest stable versions ( Free and non-free )
Framework
- gtk2+ = 2.24.x
- gtk3+ = 3.4.x
- QT 4.8.x
Desktop
- KDE4 4.9.x
- KDE 4.9.0 is to be released on 25th of July; frozen RC should be available on June 26th (schedule)
- Akonadi/Nepomuk diagnostics
- Shorten KDE login time ( from KDM login screen to desktop )
Installation
- Improving installer start ( possible chainload to grub2 to improve hardware support (UEFI )).
- VNC install
- Network install ( PXE )
- Raid devices support
- Better file system support
- LVM support
ROSA/Mandriva system components
- drakx-net (Mageia/Mandriva sync with ROSA patch)
- drakxtools (Mageia/Mandriva sync with ROSA patch)
Follow this Drakxtools_Future_Directions
Software
See List_of_end-user_applications_that_are_supported_by_ROSA
SystemD enhancment
http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/cpufreq/
General improvements
- Speed up system start
Repository improvement
- cleaned main
- rebuilt and fresh contrib
- Possible improvement of restricted with some cool restricted apps.
Community requests and propositions
- Installer encryption support
- Support for jackd, Qtractor
- Realtime kernel for sound recordings