A release of the Alt Workstation K 9.1 distribution is available, equipped with a graphical environment based on KDE Plasma and intended for corporate workstations and personal use. The OS is included in the Unified Register of Russian Programs and Databases.
Assemblies prepared for x86_64 architecture as an installation (4.3 GB) and Live image (3.1 GB). The product is supplied under the License Agreement, which provides the opportunity for free use by individuals, but legal entities are allowed only testing, and for use it is required to purchase a commercial license or conclude a license agreement in writing (reasons).
The distribution is equipped with a graphical interface for configuring the system, including authentication (including through Active Directory and LDAP / Kerberos), setting and synchronizing time, managing users, groups, viewing system logs and adding printers. The package includes proprietary NVIDIA drivers instead of the free nouveau.
From innovations compared with the eighth version are marked:
- significantly expanded hardware support, incl. NVMe on Intel RST and recently released NVIDIA video accelerators;
- OEM-mode of installation is possible with the initial system configuration at the first start;
- improve integration into heterogeneous corporate IT infrastructure by expanding support for Microsoft Group Policy for Linux users and machines;
- modules of group policies, system user restrictions, disk quotas, restrictions on access to consoles / using scripting languages / using macros in applications, shutting down the system at a specified time, compressed ZRAM / ZSWAP paging file, choosing encryption algorithms in the settings of the OpenVPN client and server ;
- default web browser is chromium-gost instead of firefox-esr;
- the ability to sign a file with an electronic signature right in the office suite;
- educational section removed;
- Replaced Skanlite with XSane, and KDE Telepathy with a suite of programs of similar functionality;
- the ability to use pre-prepared BTRFS subvolumes during installation;
- show a list of scheduled operations when partitioning disks during installation;
- for EFI bootloader GRUB instead of rEFInd during system installation;
- default editor for text mode is mcedit;
- Adobe Flash Player is excluded from the distribution;
- NVIDIA Optimus running via PRIME Render Offload (via Bumblebee no longer supported);
- the ability to run programs with a specified resource consumption limit;
- Application Center with Flatpak and Plasma Add-ons;
- added a configuration utility for the bootloader Grub, KDE Connect – a program for connecting a computer and an Android smartphone, a graphical utility for launching programs from under another user with a given priority;