Rosa Marathon LTS

[jkerr82508]

There isn't a Rosa thread yet and so I thought I'd create one. I've never tried Rosa before and so decided to install Marathon in a VM. The install went without a hitch. I disabled all special effects and removed akonadi. Nepomuk was not installed (that's good!). Switched to a traditional launcher instead of that mobile phone thing. Added the MIB/Rosa repo's and installed updates (all 418 of them).

So far I'm impressed - it's more like a traditional Mandriva than I expected. I still have to decide what do about Rosa sync (I don't think that I'll ever use it and so I just need to be sure that I remove it completely). I'll have to populate those stack folder things in order to decide how useful or otherwise they might be.

Jim

[viking60]

Now I must have a look at it again because I seem to remember that ROSA actually "just did work" too. It will be interesting to see how OpenMandriva differs from it.
That document thing is great for finding your stuff by the help of a timeline.

[rolf]

I'm trying 2012 Rosa Desktop-Fresh. It installed as an image from running Live on a usb stick pretty painlessly, albeit I've got 13+ years experience with the installer steps. Something over 500 packages were installed in the first update, once I added sources. I had to add 32-bit sources for the 64-bit installation by hand, not being able to find the button in Software Installer.

Pretty much, I'm happy with it. Some workarounds have been painfully extracted from google, some due to my hardware, no doubt. Updates have been frequent, including plf packages (so-labelled).

There is one bug I've seen before, with poppler, I think, that breaks printing from a web browser, "usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed" reported in the CUPS interface. A related report is here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get- ... owser.html

When I get time, I'll file a bug. Anybody else see this

[rolf]

Someone beat me to it: http://bugs.rosalinux.ru/show_bug.cgi?id=1865

[viking60]

Rosa desktop fresh 2012:
Here I have made a video of the timeframe document organisation. You need to aktivate nepomuk so there is a slight delay but you will get the idea.
And I don't know what happened to the colors there

This is done on a LiveCD in VB it was not installed so things will be faster than shown here.
Norwegian Bokmål is not preinstalled but Nynorsk is: Since Bokmål is spoken by the majority of Norwegians that is exotic.
So I had to install kde-l10n-nb After that everything is OK.