JSC Russian Railways is transferring part of its infrastructure to the platform Astra Linux. 22 licenses for the distribution have already been purchased—5 licenses will be used to migrate automated employee workstations, and the rest will be used to build a virtual workstation infrastructure. Migration to Astra Linux will begin this month. Implementation Astra Linux Greenatom, an IT integrator for the Rosatom State Corporation, which was previously engaged to develop IT services for Russian Railways, will be responsible for implementing the infrastructure of Russian Railways.
Let us remind you that the project Astra Linux is being developed by the Russian company RusBITech-Astra. The distribution is based on a package database. Debian GNU/Linux and comes with its own proprietary Fly desktop (interactive demo) with components using the Qt library. A free edition is available for non-commercial use. Astra Linux Common Edition. Access to repositories with binary builds and package sources is now available.
Source: opennet.ru
