Three new products based on the Tenth ALT platform (p10 Aronia) were released: "Alt Workstation 10", "Alt Server 10", "Alt Education 10". The Products are provided under a License Agreement that allows free use by individuals, but legal entities are only allowed to test, and use requires the purchase of a commercial license or a written license agreement (reasons).
The tenth platform provides users and developers with the opportunity to use Russian systems Baikal-M, Elbrus with the new official support for systems based on Elbrus-8SV (e2kv5), Elvis and compatible, as well as a wide range of equipment from world manufacturers, including POWER8 / 9 servers from IBM/Yadro, ARMv8 from Huawei, and a variety of single-board ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems, including Raspberry Pi 2/3/4 boards. For each architecture, the assembly is carried out natively, without the use of cross-compilation.
Particular attention is paid to free solutions that allow corporate users to migrate from proprietary infrastructure, ensure the continuity of a single directory service for enterprises and organizations, and provide remote work using modern means.
- "Alt Workstation 10" - for x86 (32- and 64-bit), AArch64 (Raspberry Pi 3/4), e2k / e2kv4 / e2kv5 ("Elbrus");
- "Alt Server 10" - for x86 (32 and 64 bit), AArch64 (Huawei Kunpeng, ThunderX and others), ppc64le (YADRO Power 8 and 9, OpenPower), e2k/e2kv4/e2kv5 ("Elbrus");
- Viola Education 10 - for x86 (32- and 64-bit), AArch64 (Raspberry Pi 2/3/4), e2k/e2kv4/e2kv5 (Elbrus).
In the nearest plans of "Basalt SPO" - the release of the distribution kit "Alt Server V 10". Simply Linux is expected in December along with the Virtualization Server. The beta version of "Alt Server V 10" already exists and is available for testing on x86_64, AArch64 (Baikal-M, Huawei Kunpeng), ppc64le (YADRO Power 8/9, OpenPower) platforms. Also in the first quarter is expected to release the distribution kit "Alt Workstation K 10" with the KDE Plasma environment.
Users of distributions built on the Ninth platform (p9) can update the system from the p10 branch of the Sisyphus repository. For new corporate users, it is possible to obtain test versions, and private users are traditionally offered to download the required version of the Alt OS for free from the Basalt SPO website or from the new getalt.ru download site. Options for Elbrus processors are available to legal entities that have signed an NDA with MCST JSC upon written request.
In addition to expanding the range of hardware platforms, a number of other improvements have been implemented for the Viola OS distribution kits version 10.0:
- Realtime Linux Kernels: Two realtime Linux kernels have been built for the x86_64 architecture: Xenomai and Real Time Linux (PREEMPTRT).
- OpenUDS VDI: A multi-platform connection broker for creating and managing virtual desktops and applications. A VDI user selects a template through a browser and, using a client (RDP, X2Go), connects to his desktop on a terminal server or in a virtual machine in the OpenNebula cloud.
- Group Policy Set Extension: Supports gsettings to control MATE and Xfce desktop environments.
- Active Directory Administrative Center: admc is a graphical application for managing AD users, groups, and group policies, similar to RSAT under Windows.
- An extension of the deploy platform, designed to deploy and configure roles (for example, PostgreSQL or Moodle). Added the following roles: apache, mariadb, mediawiki, moodle, nextcloud; at the same time, for the mediawiki, moodle and nextcloud roles, you can change the administrator password without worrying about the internal implementation in a particular web application.
- Added alterator-multiseat - multi-terminal configuration module.
- Support for devices based on Baikal-M processors is provided - the tf307-mb board based on the Baikal-M processor (BE-M1000) with SD and MB-A0 revisions with SDK-M-5.2, as well as the Lagrange LGB-01B (mini-ITX) board .
- Updated package versions, including proposed Linux kernel (std-def) 5.10 (5.4 for Elbrus), Perl 5.34, Python 3.9.6, PHP 8.0.13/7.4.26, GCC 10.3.1, glibc 2.32, llvm 12.0, systemd 249.1, samba 4.14, GNOME 40.3, KDE 5.84, Xfce 4.16, MATE 1.24, LibreOffice 7.2.
Source: opennet.ru