RusBITech-Astra LLC has published the release of Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.40, built on the Debian GNU / Linux 9 “Stretch” package base and supplied with its own proprietary Fly desktop (interactive demonstration) using the Qt library. An iso image, a binary repository and package sources are available for download. The distribution kit is distributed under a license agreement that imposes a number of restrictions on users, in particular, commercial use, decompilation and disassembly of the product are prohibited.
Major changes:
- Added packages for Linux 5.4 kernel (previously suggested kernel 4.19), which introduces the exFAT driver and improves support for 10th generation processors from Intel and AMD, GPU drivers and networking components. The image of the installation disk with the new kernel has been updated.
- Two new color schemes proposed: light and dark (fly-data).
- Reworked the design of the “Shutdown” dialog (fly-shutdown-dialog).
- Added support for domains and tokens in the new design of the login interface (fly-qdm).
- Added laptop-mode-tools package for laptop power and power management.
- Improved work with multi-monitor configurations in fly-wm window manager. Optimized placement of application buttons when there is not enough space on the taskbar (with the ability to scroll through rows).
- Added support for applications using KDE plugins in the file manager (fly-fm) (“send” actions from KDE), accelerated work with SMB resources.
- Fly-reflex provides a call from a pop-up window for formatting an external drive.
- Updated date and clock widget (fly-admin-date), added integration with the fly-admin-time application.
- Added a hotkey Win + F11, by which any application can be opened to full screen without decorations and overlapping the taskbar.
- In fly-notify-prevlogin information about the time of the previous login is available.
- Updated the fly-brightness control widget.
- Added the FLY_SHARED_DESKTOP_DIR environment variable (/ usr / share / fly-wm / shareddesktop) to centrally place shortcuts on all users’ desktops.
- New graphical interfaces implemented:
- fly-admin-format for formatting USB drives, with fast and full mode support.
- fly-admin-usbip to configure mount usb devices over the network (usbip).
- fly-admin-multiseat to configure the simultaneous work of several employees with shared profiles on one PC.
- fly-csp-cryptopro (formerly fly-csp) for creating and verifying the electronic signature of the CryptoPro provider.
- fly-admin-time to select NTP servers and configure time synchronization services.
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