The distribution kit Alt Server 10.1, built on the 10 ALT platform (p10 Aronia branch), has been released. The distribution is supplied under a License Agreement, which allows free use by individuals, but legal entities are only allowed to test, and use requires the purchase of a commercial license or a license agreement in writing. Installation images are prepared for x86_64, AArch64 and Elbrus architectures.
New features and tools:
- Added certificate of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development (ca-certificates-digital.gov.ru 1.0).
- Attention is paid to support for Microsoft AD and unified group policies. The Alt Server OS is used in Basalt SPO's alternative solution for implementing an Active Directory domain infrastructure under LinuxThe Samba DC 4.16 domain controller and Group Policy management tools have been updated: gpupdate 0.9.12.2, admc 0.11.2, gpui 0.2.17. The admx-msi-setup package has been added to the other admx templates in the image for loading Microsoft Group Policy onto the domain controller.
- Added text mode for GRUB bootloader. It has become more convenient to install the system on a server without a video card thanks to a separate item in the bootloader menu.
- When installing the system, the ability to create partitions with NTFS is provided.
- The use of Cyrillic in usernames or passwords is allowed; Improved switching and location of the keyboard layout indicator (greeter).
- Added virt-manager 3.2 for creation virtual machines, remote connection server tigervnc 1.10 and monitoring system Zabbix 6.0.
- Added Epm system administrator tool (eepm-yum).
- Wine 7.22 build for Alt distributions is used instead of wine-vanilla packages.
- Added sssd-ldap 2.8.
Improvements and changes:
- The distribution contains packages of current versions for the kernel-based system environment. Linux 5.10. Kernel 5.15 added. PHP 7 replaced with PHP 8. The distribution includes PostgreSQL 14 packages with and without 1C patches.
- Packages with modules for the corresponding kernels have been added to the image so as not to depend on the network repository when installing additional drivers. When booting the installer in Legacy mode, grub-pc 2.06 is used. So both Legacy and UEFI use GRUB.
- Functionality similar to alt-p10-builder is achieved by selecting the "Package Builder" option in the installer - the builder-useradd 1.5 package will be installed into the image.
- Corrective changes have been made to speed up the installation process in the minimum profile. The menu item "Support tokens" has been added to the installer in the "Server applications" group (isbc-pkcs11 4.9, opensc, pcsc-tools, openssl, pam_pkcs11). Removed installer items "Mediawiki" and "ALT Domain Server (ldap kerberos)".
- Multipath operation (0.9) is configured by default similar to the Virtualization Server. The connection broker and tunnel for creating and managing OpenUDS 3.5.0 virtual workstations have been updated.
- A default SWAP partition is provided. The image supports the ability to create a Btrfs partition (btrfs-progs 5.19) during installation.
- The AArch64 image contains the xor-neon kernel module, which allows you to install the system on RAID4/5/6 for improved fault tolerance and performance.
- In AArch64, the Chromium 107.0 web browser is selected for working on the Internet. Jitsi Meet is incompatible with AArch64.
- For settings servers HAProxy installed haproxy 2.6 and keepalived 2.2.
- The MATE workspace has been updated to version 1.26 and LibreOffice has been updated to version 7.4.
- To detect scanners (Samsung ProXpress M3870FD, Pantum M7100DN, Samsung ProXpress M3870FD, Pantum M7100DN, Oki MB472, Kyocera ECOSYS-M2040dn, Brother MFC L2720DW), sane-airscan is installed.
Source: opennet.ru
