Its desktop computer editions come bundled with closed-source software such as Adobe Flash Player, multimedia codecs, and Steam.

ROSA originated as a fork of now defunct French distribution Mandriva Linux and has since then been developed independently.

It initially targeted enterprise users only, but in late 2012, ROSA started its end-user oriented distribution, Desktop Fresh.

Although its main popularity is in the Russian language market, ROSA Desktop also received favorable reviews by several non-Russian online publications.

Opting to run the live desktop brings us to a series of screens asking us to read the distribution's license agreement, set our time zone, and confirm our keyboard's layout.

Given this reception, I decided to reboot the machine and try running the system installer from the live disc's boot menu.Smith also reviewed Fresh R9 version.