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ROSA Linux
A Russian-developed distribution that originated as a fork of the now-defunct Mandriva Linux, continuing development independently across desktop, enterprise-desktop, and enterprise-server editions.
Based on
Independent (originated as a Mandriva fork)
First released
2010
Package manager
urpmi/DNF (.rpm)
Desktop environments
KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXQt, Xfce
ROSA Linux picked up development after Mandriva Linux, an influential French distribution with roots reaching back to the 1990s, folded, carrying forward some of that lineage's RPM-based, YaST-like configuration heritage while evolving independently since. It's developed by the Russian company NTC IT ROSA and ships in three editions -- a community-oriented ROSA Desktop Fresh, plus commercially supported ROSA Enterprise Desktop and ROSA Enterprise Linux Server editions aimed at business customers -- with support for KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXQt, and Xfce desktops. It bundles closed-source components some users may want to be aware of (proprietary codecs and drivers) more readily than a strictly free-software-focused distribution would.
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