Rosa Offers Basic UEFI Support On 2012 Desktop

Rosa Linux of Russia has released its 2012 desktop alpha with basic UEFI support.

Its a fork of Mandriva Linux that's gone in its own direction.


http://www.rosalab.com/blogs/rosa-desktop-2012-alpha-2-with-basic-uef

We'll be seeing UEFI support on more Linux distros in the future.

 

I should add Mrkvonic just tested the FREE version of the LTS edition. It did not come with a wireless driver - which is strange since they usually are preloaded in Mandriva.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/rosa-marathon-2012.html

You can't fault him for cutting the testing of the FREE edition short. In the Live Session though, it should be possible to download the wireless driver via Ethernet - as Ubuntu helpfully offers to do.

If not, my guess is as in Mandriva, the non-FREE version has the drivers and what not proprietary software installed for immediate use. If in doubt pick the non-FREE version but in my opinion Rosa should have said Complete for that and Limited to new users to spare them confusion.

An aside: Rosa in Russian means "dew". Cute name for a distro!

It seems this one is in its growing pains and maybe ready at the end of its current life cycle. It has a promising future.