Alt Education 10.2: New Operating System Version

Bazalt SPO Releases New Version of “Alt Education” Operating System for Educational Organizations

Bazalt SPO company released the new version of the operating system for educational organizations – “Alt Education” 10.2, built on the basis of the de de F10 (P10). The assemblies are prepared for platforms X86_64, AARCH64 (Baikal-M), i586. The OS is intended for everyday use by preschool organizations, schools, universities, secondary special educational institutions. The product is supplied under a license agreement, which provides the possibility of free use by individuals, but legal entities are allowed only to test, and for use, it is required to purchase a commercial license or conclude a licensed contract in writing.

“Alt Education” allows you to create and integrate jobs for students, students, teachers. The necessary set of programs can be selected at the stage of installation of OS or download at any time from a special meta-package. The operating system provides centralized management of the training class, automated simultaneous installation for several jobs, supports guest sessions, can operate on a heterogeneous network, contains video conferences server (based on Jitsi Meet), is compatible with educational web services and domestic software, works with interactive boards. In the process of installing the system, users can choose the graphic environment of the XFCE 4.18 (default) or KDE Plasma 5.27. It is possible to load the office package P7-office from the repository of JSC R7, collected to work at the Alt OS.

The main differences “Alt Education” 10.2 from the previous version:

  • A general update of the distribution package base was carried out. Among the used versions of Perl 5.34, Python 3.9, PHP 8.0, Scribus 1.5, GIMP 2.10, Inkscape 1.2, Blender 2.93, Chromium 117.0, Glibc 2.32, GCC 10, and Systemd 249.16;
  • Enviated the core Linux 6.1;
  • Added the ability to choose a Wi-Fi network before entering
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