the second alpha release of ROSA Desktop 2012.1

Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the availability of the second alpha release of ROSA Desktop 2012.1: "The ROSA team is pleased to present an alpha 2 of the ROSA Desktop 2012.1 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. 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 alpha 2 of ROSA Desktop 2012.1 to allow launching the system on a broad range of modern desktop machines." Read the rest of the release announcement for a list of major software components and a handful of screenshots. Download: ROSA.2012.Desktop.Alpha2.i586.iso (1,489MB, MD5, torrent), ROSA.2012.Desktop.Alpha2.x86_64.iso (1,516MB, MD5, torrent).