The new version of the Russian distribution Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.29

Companies LLC "RusBITech-Astra" опубликовала distribution release Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.29, built on the Debian GNU/Linux package base and comes with its own proprietary desktop Flight (interactive demo) using the Qt library. ISO images for download while not available, but offered binary repository и source code packages. The distribution kit is distributed within the framework license agreement, which imposes a number of restrictions on users, in particular, commercial use, decompilation and disassembly of the product are prohibited.

All changes:

• The fly-admin-ltsp application has been added to create an infrastructure for working with "thin clients" based on the LTSP server (creating a server and generating client images);
  

• Added fly-admin-repo application to create own repositories with deb packages;
  

• The fly-admin-sssd-client application has been added to enter the Active Directory domain using the sssd system service, which allows accessing remote authorization mechanisms;
  

• A set of Astra OEM Installer utilities has been proposed to facilitate OEM installation of the OS by setting up the system at the first start (setting the administrator name and password, time zone and installing the necessary components);
  

• Added a service for creating digital signatures of documents and verifying an electronic signature using CryptoPro CSP (fly-csp);
  

• Added fly-admin-touchpad utility to configure the touchpad in laptops;
  

• In the Start menu and Control Panel, a search by items has been added, which works regardless of the presence of the corresponding item in the menu;
  

• Updated implementation and design of tools for grouping applications on the taskbar, added the ability to close a group of windows;
  

• Implemented custom grouping of application icons in the system tray. The "Collapse All" field appeared on the right side of the taskbar;
  

• Implemented settings for opening shortcuts on a single click on the desktop;
• Added a setting to enable vertical sync to combat tearing;
• In the file manager, the ability to display file sizes in bytes has been added, work with a large number of files in a directory has been optimized, it has become possible to work with document templates from the context menu, a quick transition to external resources (ftp, smb) via the address bar has been implemented. Improvements have been made to working with SMB resources, including the corrected determination of the amount of free space for SMB resources;
• The fly-brightness brightness adjustment utility has been completely redesigned, PowerDevil support has been added, automatic brightness control has been implemented in the presence of a light sensor;
• The security policy (fly-admin-local) implements a password request immediately after creating a user account;
• The ability to view task and printer attributes has been added to the printer management utility (fly-admin-printer), stability has been significantly improved;
• Improved behavior of the camera application (fly-camera) when turning the device;
• In the utility for changing the screen orientation (fly-orientation), the application for rotating the device has been redesigned, support for multiple screens has been added, sensor calibration has been added, and a default orientation has been implemented;
• Added experimental support for the new theme to the login manager (fly-qdm);
• Added the ability to delay the update reminder to the system update interface (fly-update-notifier);
• Added settings for working with access control lists to fly-admin-samba, as well as minor functional changes;
• Implemented a new two-factor authentication service based on libpam-csp and csp-monitor;
• Added the ability to configure more than 2 keyboard layouts to fly-xkbmap;
• In the mobile session, the file selection dialog has been improved, work with contacts has been improved;
• Made adaptation for MIG T10 tablets on x86_64 processor architecture;
• Packages added to the repository:
  • audacious 3.7.2
  • clang-9 9.0.1
  • conky 1.10.8
  • csp-monitor 0.0.1
  • golang-1-10 1.10.4
  • gcc-mozilla 7.5.0
  • nvidia 440
  • pam-usbguard-astra 1.3
  • call 1.1
  • x2goclient 4.1.2
  • stock 0.91
  • vagrant-libvirt 0.0.37
  • xfsdump 3.1.6
  • xmms2 0.8
  • colorpaint 4:19.12
  • icedtea 1.7.2
  • z3 4.4.1 and others
• More than 300 packages have been updated, more than 90 of which are part of the Fly graphical shell, including fly-wm (up to version 2.30.4) and fly-fm (up to version 1.7.39). Updated including:
  • ansible 2.7.7
  • astra-openvpn-server 0.3.02
  • bsign 1.1.7
  • chromium 80
  • firefox 72
  • hplip 3.20.3
  • freeipa 4.6.4-24
  • lighttpd 1.4.53
  • libreoffice 6.3.5
  • libsane 1.0.27
  • libgost-astra 0.0.19
  • live-build-astra 0.4.19
  • lkrg 0.7
  • lxc 3.1.0
  • linux kernel 4.15.3-2
  • network-manager 1.10.14
  • nss 3.45
  • opensc 0.19
  • openssl 1.1.1d
  • puppet-agent 6.12
  • puppet server 6.9
  • qmmp 1.3.7
  • remmina 1.3.3
  • sqlite3 3.30.1
  • vagrant 2.0.2
  • vlc 3.0.10

Source: opennet.ru