From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on sa.local.altlinux.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 From: Maria Fokanova To: altlinux-announce-en@lists.altlinux.org Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 18:48:00 +0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 May 2022 17:48:15 +0300 Subject: [altlinux-announce-en] Distribution Release: ALT KWorkstation on Platform 10 X-BeenThere: altlinux-announce-en@lists.altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org List-Id: ALT Linux release announces List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 14:48:05 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: Good day! The distribution ALT KWorkstation 10 with a desktop environment based on KDE Plasma available on platform 10 (p10 Aronia branch). The assembly is prepared for the x86_64 architecture. The operating system is included in the Unified Register of Russian Programs and Databases. The distribution appeals to a wide circle of users to work in the office and at home. Download the release image (in the most accessible mirror): http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/altlinux/p10/images/kworkstation/ http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/kworkstation/ http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p10/images/kworkstation/ The release of the operating system ALT KWorkstation 10.0 became the final update of the entire line of ALT distribution kits to the 10th Aronia branch. In December 2021 the ALT distribution kits Server, Workstation, Education, Simply Linux, Server Virtualization were released. BaseALT Ltd. products respond to requests of Russian organizations that consists in the implementation of the transition to the infrastructure under the control of domestic operating systems. Workstations and servers based on Russian processors are widely applicable and in demand in areas such as the public sector, the field of education and healthcare, large business and security agencies. An important feature is the ability to boot from the ALT KWorkstation disk in LiveCD mode. As other operating systems in the ALT OS family the distribution comes with the Alterator GUI for system configuration, which allows you to manage users and groups, view system logs, add printers, set up a network and more. The system successfully works in the Active Directory domain. Support for group policy applying is implemented with the Samba 4.14 server. New features and familiar applications The distribution kit contains current versions packages for the system environment based on the Linux 5.15 kernel, Glibc 2.32, the GCC 10.3 compiler set, systemd 249.9. ALT KWorkstation 10 contains all the tools for performing office tasks - a web browser, an office suite of text editors and spreadsheets as well as players and editors for sound and video. The new 10th version of ALT KWorkstation supports the 12th generation of Intel Alder Lake processors and seamless system boot. It also became possible to take a screenshot during the installation of the system. Tablet computer users can appreciate the improved support for their devices. The developers have added more drivers for OKI, Brother printers and Epson scanners. In the new 10th version, the Linphone program appeared - a cross-platform software client for IP telephony in the SIP standard with an open source code distributed under the GNU GPL license. The Linphone program is intended for making audio and video calls, as well as exchanging text messages via the Internet. Support for Snap apps to desktop, cloud and IoT added, it allows users to securely install and run packages from the Snap Store, an app store for Linux (Canonical). Snap apps are easy to install, cross-platform and standalone. The Snapd daemon is able to work with an additional repository based on Canonical. The Flatpak utility includes the flathub repository by default. In this way, users will be able to work with Snap and Flatpak applications without the risk of messing up the main system. Safe work The developers have taken care of a safe system update. In the new mode the system will update the packages during reboot. Plasma5-discover-packagekit appeared instead of apt-indicator. To work on the Web the Chromium browser was assembled with support for the Chromium-gost 97 encryption algorithm and the Thunderbird 91 mail client. The network settings are managed by NetworkManager 1.32. Electronic digital signature (EDS) tools - Rutoken, JaCarta and ISBC - are compatible with KWorkstation. Working process with EDS keys becomes possible right out of the box, including support for two-factor authentication along with tokens. Also Russian root encryption certificates appeared in the system. New Application Versions The office toolkit includes the LibreOffice 7 package for editing texts, spreadshits and presentations, the Okular 21.12 document viewer and the built-in QStarDict 1.3 dictionary. Many will appreciate the built-in utility for text recognition gImageReader 3.3. You can navigate with the Dolphin 21 file manager. The classic set of applications for working with video and sound files, complex graphics and animation now uses the default graphics editor Krita 5.0, replacing Gimp. The distribution supports 3D and OpenCL hardware acceleration tools with branded NVIDIA video card drivers. Error correction The launch of the installer has been improved on systems with UEFI firmware; developers paid special attention to problematic UEFI specifications. In addition to notable improvements in processor support, kernel launch and cross-platform application support the ALT KWorkstation developers have fixed a number of shortcomings. For the X11 graphics subsystem a hang was eliminated in cases where the hostname was changed. So, The new distribution is the three years of patient labour on a product worthy of use in organizations and at home. Read more on the wiki (in russian): https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Рабочая_Станция_К_10 Users of ALT distributions on Platform 9 (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 traditionally private users are offered to download the required version of the ALT OS for free from the BaseALT Ltd. website or from the new download site. Cloud images: http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/cloud/ You can also view and download distributions of other products: https://getalt.org/en/ -- Best regards, Maria Fokanova community manager