ROSA Desktop 2012: Alpha-version

In this Alpha release the main emphasis was made on libraries and core system software.

We have successfully rebuilt packages from the Main repository with new libraries and adopted our
package base to RPM 5.4.x requirements. Versions of system components included in the alpha
release:

You can download the ROSA Desktop 2012 Alpha from:
http://mirror.rosalab.ru/iso/ROSA.Desktop/ROSA.2012.1.Alpha/

    rpm 5.4.9
    gcc 4.7 Linaro
    glibc 2.15
    libpng15 1.5.11
    kde 4.9.0
    perl 5.14
    kernel 3.5.1
    systemd+udev 189
    qt4 4.8.2
    glib2 2.32.3
    gtk+2 2.24.11
    gtk+3 3.4.4
    boost 1.50.0
    ffmpeg 0.11.1
    php 5.4.6
    ruby 1.9.3-p194

Currently GRUB 0.97 is used as boot loader, but it will be replaced with GRUB 2 at next stages of
ROSA Desktop 2012 development.

Note: this alpha release only supports KDE 4!

You can get additional information at ROSA wiki:
http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/ROSA_DESKTOP_2012_Alpha

While testing Alpha release, please pay special attention to functionality of core system
components and report all issues to ROSA bugzilla:  http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/ ("Desktop 2012"
category).

You are welcome to discuss Desktop 2012 Alpha and ask question at ROSALab forum:
http://forum.rosalab.ru  and in ROSA-users mailing list:
http://lists.rosalab.ru/mailman/listinfo/rosa-users

We would remind our dear users that preliminary date of the next beta-release of ROSA Desktop 2012
is October.

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Konstantin Kochereshkin
PR-менеджер
CJSC «ROSA»
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