ROSA Desktop Fresh GNOME is a distribution of Linux, a special edition of the ROSA Desktop Fresh operating system that uses the modern GNOME desktop environment and a collection of free and open source applications. It is derived from the Mandriva Linux operating system.
Distributed as 32-bit and 64-bit Live DVDs
The GNOME edition of ROSA Desktop Fresh can be downloaded from via Softoware or from the project’s homepage (see link above) as two Live DVD ISO images of approximately 1.5GB in size each, designed for the 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.
Boot options
The boot menu of the Live DVDs is identical with the one used in other ROSA Desktop Fresh editions, designed to allow the user to start the live environment, boot an existing operating system from the first disk, permanently install the distribution on a local drive using default options or the safe graphics mode, perform a RAM diagnostic test and recover a broken bootloader.
Modern desktop environment powered by GNOME
Before you can access the modern desktop environment powered by GNOME, it is a must to choose a language to use, accept a license agreement, set up date, clock and timezone settings, and select a keyboard layout.
The GNOME desktop has been highly customized with a beautiful theme and a visible dock (application launcher) on the left side of the screen, allowing the user to quickly launch his/her favorite apps.
Modern open source applications
The modern GNOME desktop environment is accompanied by a great set of modern open source applications, among which we can mention the Mozilla Firefox web browser, Evolution email and calendar client, Empathy multi-protocol instant messenger, Shotwell image viewer and organizer, LibreOffice Writer, as well as Nautilus file manager.
Bottom line
Without no doubt this is one of the best editions of the ROSA Desktop Fresh Linux distribution, as it features a beautified GNOME desktop environment and just the right applications.
What is new in this release:
- Changes in DE-independent components:
- The installer will now eject the DVD automatically after the installation of the system has completed. This simplifies OS installation in the virtual machines.
- Rosa Image Writer was improved to handle the changes in the list of available USB devices correctly.
- Problems with detection of the file name encodings in zip archives were fixed in 7-zip.
- The update system was improved to avoid removing packages in case of errors in the repository mirrors. Earlier, the system suggested to remove the installed packages if their dependencies were missing at the mirrors.
- The default settings of PulseAudio were changed so that Skype no longer mutes the sound in other applications during its notifications.
- Disabled anti-aliasing of the fonts in GIMP to get rid of the green borders of the symbols.
- For security reasons, support for SSLv2 protocol was disabled in OpenSSL.
- Added support for changing screen resolution in SDDM login manager in VirtualBox.
- Fixed the problems that prevented gawk and grep from correct processing of some national-language symbols, e.g. Syrian ones.
- traceroute no longer requires root privileges.
- Fixed the rendering of the rouble sign as well as drawing of some shapes in LibreOffice.
- Fixed the discrete GPU not turning off in the hybrid graphics systems when user switched to the integrated GPU.
- The opensource implementation of OpenGL provided by Mesa supports OpenGL 4.1 now.
- Steam was updated to make it easier to use the libraries from the default repositories of ROSA rather than from the bundle it downloads.
- Several missing icons were added to the ROSA icon theme.
- ...And much more.
- Updates of major components:
- LTS kernel 4.1.25 is used by default. Kernel 4.4.x (x86_64, i586) and 4.6.x (x86_64, i586) are available in additional repositories.
- Mesa was updated to 11.2.2
- PulseAudio was updated to 8.0
- NetworkManager was updated to 1.2.2
- Chromium was updated to 51.0
- Firefox was updated to 46.0.1
- New Moon was updated to 26.3.3
- Thunderbird was updated to 38.6
- LibreOffice was updated to 5.1.4
- Qt5 was updated to 5.6.1, KF5 was updated to 5.24.0
- FFmpeg was updated to 2.8.7
- GStreamer and its plugins was updated to 1.6.3
- Graphical drivers for NVidia video cards have been updated:
- nvidia361 - to version 361.42
- nvidia-current - to version 364.15
What is new in version 2014.1 R8:
- Changes in DE-independent components:
- The installer will now eject the DVD automatically after the installation of the system has completed. This simplifies OS installation in the virtual machines.
- Rosa Image Writer was improved to handle the changes in the list of available USB devices correctly.
- Problems with detection of the file name encodings in zip archives were fixed in 7-zip.
- The update system was improved to avoid removing packages in case of errors in the repository mirrors. Earlier, the system suggested to remove the installed packages if their dependencies were missing at the mirrors.
- The default settings of PulseAudio were changed so that Skype no longer mutes the sound in other applications during its notifications.
- Disabled anti-aliasing of the fonts in GIMP to get rid of the green borders of the symbols.
- For security reasons, support for SSLv2 protocol was disabled in OpenSSL.
- Added support for changing screen resolution in SDDM login manager in VirtualBox.
- Fixed the problems that prevented gawk and grep from correct processing of some national-language symbols, e.g. Syrian ones.
- traceroute no longer requires root privileges.
- Fixed the rendering of the rouble sign as well as drawing of some shapes in LibreOffice.
- Fixed the discrete GPU not turning off in the hybrid graphics systems when user switched to the integrated GPU.
- The opensource implementation of OpenGL provided by Mesa supports OpenGL 4.1 now.
- Steam was updated to make it easier to use the libraries from the default repositories of ROSA rather than from the bundle it downloads.
- Several missing icons were added to the ROSA icon theme.
- ...And much more.
- Updates of major components:
- LTS kernel 4.1.25 is used by default. Kernel 4.4.x (x86_64, i586) and 4.6.x (x86_64, i586) are available in additional repositories.
- Mesa was updated to 11.2.2
- PulseAudio was updated to 8.0
- NetworkManager was updated to 1.2.2
- Chromium was updated to 51.0
- Firefox was updated to 46.0.1
- New Moon was updated to 26.3.3
- Thunderbird was updated to 38.6
- LibreOffice was updated to 5.1.4
- Qt5 was updated to 5.6.1, KF5 was updated to 5.24.0
- FFmpeg was updated to 2.8.7
- GStreamer and its plugins was updated to 1.6.3
- Graphical drivers for NVidia video cards have been updated:
- nvidia361 - to version 361.42
- nvidia-current - to version 364.15
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