Rosa Fresh distribution release 12.3

The NTC IT Rosa company issued a corrective release of a freely distributed and developed with the participation of the Rosa Fresh 12.3 distribution community, built on the Rosa2021.1 platform. For free loading, assemblies designed for the X86_64 platform are prepared in options with KDE Plasma 5, LXQT, GNOME, XFCE and without GUI. Users who have already installed the Rosa Fresh R12 distribution will receive an update automatically.

The release is notable for the fact that, in addition to previously formed images with KDE 5, GNOME and LXQT, images with XFCE and a minimalistic server image are released – the first server distribution at the Rosa Fresh package base. The composition of server assembly includes only a set of components that are minimally necessary for the convenient operation of the administrator, and the necessary packages can be installed from the repository, including, for example, Freeipa and Russian Fork Nginx Angie with additional modules.

Other features of the new version:

  • The package base is updated. The Linux nucleus is updated to version 5.15.75 (previously supplied branch 5.10 continues to be supported).
  • , with the recommended installer of the disk marking (swap), the support of the ZSWAP mechanism using the ZSTD algorithm to compress is implemented, which allows you to effectively work on systems with a small amount of RAM.
  • Additional drivers are added to the images to support Bluetooth and WiFi Realtek.
  • The format of loading images is changed: the flash drive with the Rosa Linux image is now standardly mounted and its contents can be viewed in the file manager.
  • For each user environment, two images are now available – standard (with support for both UEFI and BIOS, but MBR sections table) and .uefi (also with support for both UEFI and BIOS, but the GPT sections table), which allows you to put system for a wider park of computers.
  • In the bootloader, the default expectations are reduced, the loading of the system is now faster.
  • With the inaccessibility of the main mirrors for installing packages, automatic switching to backup mirrors is provided.
  • A package of RootCerts-Russia with certificates of the certificate of the Center for the Ministry of Cyphra of Russia (the package can be deleted without violation of the system’s performance).
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  • A console utility for auto starting video drivers NVIDIA KROKO-CLI (own development, source code ).
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  • In the console “out of the box” support for a Russian -speaking certificate on the basis termhelper (own development).
  • In DNFDRAGORA in 64-bit images, 32-bit packages are hidden for the convenience of users.
  • A graphic update indicator is added to rosa-update-system (own development). XFCE uses the DNFDRAGora update indicator.



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