Rosa Company distribution , designed for use in the corporate sector and based on the with KDE4 desktop. The focus during the preparation of the distribution is on stability, including only tested components that have been validated on ROSA Desktop Fresh users. Installation iso-images are not publicly available and are provided only upon separate .
Key innovations:
- By default, it uses Linux kernel 4.15 with patches from Ubuntu 18.04 and includes additional features such as Full Preemption mode and SELinux support instead of AppArmor. Kernel packages 4.18, 4.20, and 5.0 are also available as options.
- A file viewer for the system audit Rosa Audit Viewer has been added.
- Two-factor authentication can be enabled upon system login.
- The Windows AD domain connection wizard has been updated with automatic filling of most parameters.
- The installer has been updated with the ability to install on NVMe and M.2 SSDs, as well as support for using file systems F2FS and Btrfs with Zstd compression.
- Tools for remote administration using Ansible have been added.
Features of the distribution:
- KDE4 desktop is used with the integration of new programs from KDE5, modernization of the design, and specialized components developed for ROSA, such as SimpleWelcome, RocketBar, StackFolder, and Klook.
- A graphical interface for system management, including support for installing proprietary drivers and joining Windows AD and FreeIPA domains.
- Quick installation and launch of proprietary programs (Skype, Viber, etc.) from the start menu.
- The main browser offered is the ESR branch of Firefox, with Yandex Browser available optionally. The default programs include the Thunderbird email client with the Lightning organizer extension, the instant messaging application Pidgin with avahi-bonjour support (working without a central server), the LibreOffice office suite, image editors GIMP and Inkscape, and the video editor KDEnlive. OpenJDK 1.8 is pre-installed for running Java applications.
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