General view

The product includes an up-to-date desktop operating system with a user-friendly interface and a set of application software carefully selected by our developers. After installing ROSA Desktop user gets ready workplace with no need to install office suite, graphic editor, anti-virus software, media players, ICQ-like clients, dictionaries and other basic software as an addition.

ROSA Marathon 2012 is compliant with the Linux Standards Base (LSB). This allows users to launch LSB-compliant applications, including proprietary software important for enterprise users.

ROSA 2012 Marathon will be available in two editions: Free (includes free software only) and Extended Edition (with non-free components and proprietary software, such as multimedia codecs), allowing users to either follow the spirit of Free Software, or to get as much functionality as possible "out of the box".

ROSA Marathon 2012 operating system is the first product of ROSA company created using our own software development and build environment - ROSA ABF - that gives us complete control of package base and development tools, guarantying technological independence and high quality of the distribution. This also allows ROSA company to guarantee 5-year long technical support which implies software security updates, bug fixes for system components and updates of application software up to new versions acknowledged to be stable.

ROSA Marathon 2012 is available in major European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian.