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About ROSA 2012 Marathon

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ROSA 2012 Marathon is a LTS (long time support) release with guaranteed security and software updates for 5 years. Based on Mandriva/ROSA 2011 repositories with lots of improvements and updates. It is recommended for Enterprise, SMB and SOHO which do not need the "bleeding edge" technology, but require stable software and ability to work for a long time without reinstalling the system. This is the first release completely built using the ABF system.

You can find additional information about ROSA 2012 Marathon in its tour and some information about known issues and workarounds at the Errata page.

Distribution

ROSA 2012 Marathon is available in the following editions:

1. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveDVD KDE4 (pure Free Edition) for i586 and x86_64 architectures. For default enabled ONLY main media.

2. ROSA 2012 Marathon LiveDVD KDE4 Extended Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures, including non-free components and proprietary software (such as multimedia codecs). Note that laws of some countries may forbid usage of some of these components! In this release added and enabled main, non-free and restricted media.

Available community editions:

3. ROSA LXDE 2012 community edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures (see ROSA LXDE 2012 community edition summary).

4. ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME community Edition for i586 and x86_64 architectures (see ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME community Edition summary and Restricted and non-free components of ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME Community Edition, free from proprietary components ISO is available as well).

System requirements

Deprecation

GNOME, Xfce and other Desktop Environments (DE) and Window Managers (WM) are no longer included in the official ROSA packages. Contribution packages from the ROSA community are available for these desktop environments however. Only KDE4 is officially supported. If you need ROSA with another DE or WM you can use unofficial packages or distributions prepared by community members.

Common components

Kernel and system stack

Hardware support

Improved ROSA-specific system stuff

We have updated and improved functionality of these components in the following areas:


Removed deprecated drakconf modules

Some deprecated drakconf modules are removed.

Please refer to the Drakxtools Replacements page for the list of removed modules and suggested replacements.

Network

KDE

Enterprise stack

User applications