The first Release Candidate of ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME edition has been released. ROSA Marathon is a line of Linux distributions published by ROSA Laboratory, a Linux solutions provider based in Moscow, Russia.
Other Linux editions published by ROSA Laboratory are ROSA Marathon 2012 KDE and ROSA Marathon 2012 LXDE. Both have already been reviewed on this website. See ROSA 2012 LXDE review and ROSA Marathon 2012 review.
This Release Candidate of what will become ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME uses the GNOME 2, and not the latest GNOME 3 desktop environment. This article presents a few screen shots from a test installation.
First, is the login screen.
The default desktop.
The desktop with the menu showing installed Office applications.
The desktop with the menu showing installed Internet applications. Firefox 10 is the installed Web browser.
ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME will ship with just enough games.
Entries in the Places menu.
The date widget.
Like the other ROSA Linux editions, ROSA Marathon 2012 GNOME will be using the beautiful ROSA icon theme.
And the excellent graphical management applications in the ROSA Control Center.
Want to rest drive this release candidate before the final, stable release comes out? Download an installation image from here.
Hi the link you provided not valid anymore. Here is the download link
http://mirror.yandex.ru/rosa/iso/unofficial/ROSA.2012.MARATHON.GNOME-RC1/
May i know how long they will support a release cycle? Their distribution seem solid. I want to use them as on my production machine.
5 years.
Being something of a ‘distro-junkie’ ( I download and install weekly)
I was surprised to find ROSA a pretty good example of a well built distro. Unfortunately with SO many other distros it will most likely
remain a somewhat small in terms of users. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. My own personal choices tend to be Ubuntu-based OS’s
so that’s not a bad thing. I do wish the developers luck and kudos for a nice job..
All their editions are actually much better than many of the popular ones out there. I have the KDE edition on my lappy and it is not going to be replaced anytime soon.