ROSA Desktop Fresh R9 GNU/Linux Operating System Rebased on a Newer Platform

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The development team behind the ROSA GNU/Linux operating system announced today the release and immediate availability for download of the KDE and KDE Plasma flavors of ROSA Desktop Fresh R9.

ROSA Desktop Fresh R9 is the first release in more than two years to rebase the RPM-based operating system derived from Mandriva to a newer 2016.1 platform. It comes with both the KDE 4 and KDE Plasma 5 desktop environments, while the GNOME 3, MATE, and LXQt variants should be out in the coming months.

“ROSA Desktop R9 is the firs release based on new packages platform 2016.1. The distributive is targeted mainly to the Linux advocates eager to try the new software versions. According to the updates policy the R9 version of the ROSA distribution will have 4 years of technical support,” reads the release notes.

Based on Linux kernel 4.9.20 LTS and Mesa 17.0.3

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