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ROSA 2012 Marathon

5th April 2012
Update! - In the meanwhile Rosalab have officially announced the beta:
http://www.rosalab.com/blogs/beta-release-of-rosa-marathon-2012-is-no


Right; it's been happening for a while but now there's this web page that kind of makes things more "official":
http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Release_notes_ROSA_Marathon_2012

To quote from that web page:
"ROSA 2012 Marathon is a LTS (long time support) release with guaranteed security and software updates for 5 years. Based on Mandriva/ROSA 2011 repositories with lots of improvements and updates. It is recommended for Enterprise, SMB and SOHO which do not need the "bleeding edge" technology, but require stable software and ability to work for a long time without reinstalling the system. This is the first release completely built using the ABF system."

So it looks like Rosa Labs, the Russian group behind most of what's happening now at Mandriva S.A. has got enough of shareholders dicking around and forked the distribution? It would seem so.

Mageia has a step sister in ROSA now, the newest Mandriva fork. Or is Mandriva slowly being renamed to ROSA? Things are getting interesting again.

By the looks of it the distribution is still in testing but the nightlies look at least usable; there's no final release date yet.
Here are some download links for the testing ISOs:
http://mirrors.coreix.net/MIB/rosa2012lts/iso/beta/

Use on your own risk, there's no official announcement yet.

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Rosa Marathon 2012 LTS Review

5th May 2012
Just found out that my friend Florin has written a few words about Rosa 2012 this week, I know Marathon is not yet released officially (he was messing with the dev snapshots), but it's worth a read. If you're following Mandriva related stuff this might be of interest:
http://my.opera.com/symbianflo/blog/2012/05/01/rosa-marathon-2012lts
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ROSA 2012 LTS released

13th May 2012
And at last the russians of Rosalabs have announced the final release of ROSA 2012 LTS, codenamed Marathon!

Read more about it HERE.

Download from here:
http://mirror.rosalab.ru/iso/ROSA.Desktop/ROSA.2012.MARATHON/

If you want a modern, good looking, KDE based distro that is supported for the next 5 years then ROSA is for you.
If you're a Mandrake/Mandriva fan, like me, then ROSA is for you, too. :-)
This page explains more about what ROSA brings to the table:
http://www.rosalab.com/products/desktop/

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