[altlinux-announce-en] ALT Workstation K 8.1 (ex-KDesktop)

[Michael Shigorin]

Moscow,
November 24 2016

BaseALT Ltd announces the release of ALT Workstation 8.1 K distribution
aimed for corporate and personal desktop use.

Features:
* KDE 5 desktop environment, a powerful and flexible solution
  for both beginners and experienced users;
* wide range of software to work with internet, documents,
  complex graphics and animation, to process audio and video,
  for education;
* means for connecting to enterprise infrastructure and services;
* includes entertainment software so you can play yourself or with
  your children, watch a movie or listen to music, talk to friends
  using social networks, forums and chatrooms;
* convenient setup out-of-box, ready for use right upon installation.

Changes compared to KDesktop 7.0:
* KDE5: Workspace 5.8.3, Frameworks 5.28.0, Applications 16.08.01
* Linux kernel 4.4.34
* NVIDIA drivers: 367.57, 340.98, 304.131
* LibreOffice 5.2 suite
* Firefox ESR 45.5.0 browser
* WINE 1.9.23 for running win32 apps
* GIMP 2.8.16 graphics editor
* Scribus 1.4.5 desktop publishing system
* Inkscape 0.91 vector graphics editor
* Blender 2.77a the 3D editor
* Ring 2.3.0 VoIP client
* VirtualBox 5.1.6 virtual machine
* clients for Active Directory, cloud storage, monitoring and backup

Product page (in Russian):
http://www.basealt.ru/products/alt-workstation/

Download:
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p8/images/kworkstation/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.altlinux.org/p8/images/kworkstation/

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