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ROSA Fresh R5 Release Finally Adds Proper Secure Boot Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 27 December 2014 at 08:06 AM EST. Add A Comment

The Russians behind the ROSA Fresh Linux distribution released their "R5" desktop on Christmas.

The ROSA Fresh R5 Linux distribution release ships with KDE 4.14.3 as its desktop, features Firefox 34, offers a great number of fixes over ROSA R4, adds support for booting with Secure Boot mode enabled, updates to the Linux 3.14.25 LTS kernel, is running on Mesa 10.3.3 along with an option for the AMD/NVIDIA binary blobs, and has numerous other enhancements.

Those wishing to learn more about this popular Russian Linux distribution can visit ROSALab.com.

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