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ROSA team is pleased to present an Alpha 2 version of ROSA Desktop 2012 operating system. Major changes from the first Alpha release include basic UEFI support and update of key system components and user applications. We have also significantly improved functionality of ROSA brand-name applications: SimpleWelcome, RocketBar, StackFolder, KLook and TimeFrame.
You can download ROSA Desktop 2012 Alpha 2 here.
In modern computers BIOS is replaced with a new interface between an operating system and platform firmware - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Basic UEFI support was added to the Alpha2 version of ROSA Desktop 2012 to allow launching the system on a broad range of modern desktop machines, except for Apple hardware.
Migration to a new version of GRUB2 boot loader allowed to achieve better compatibility with alternative operating systems. We have also continued to migrate to KDE Control Center as a single point of system configuration to resolve a problem of duplicated configuration tools inherited from Mandriva.
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