[altlinux-announce-en] Distribution Release: ALT Workstation 10.2

[Maria Fokanova]

Good day!

Glad to present to you the update of the operating system ALT 
Workstation 10.2 on Platform 10 (p10 Aronia branch). The assembly of ALT 
Workstation 10.2 distribution kit is prepared for the x86_64, AArch64, 
i586 architecture and Elbrus. The operating system is included in the 
Unified Register of Russian programs and databases. The product 
satisfies the request of Russian organizations for the smooth merging of 
the existing infrastructure on foreign software with the infrastructure 
under the domestic operating systems control.

Download the release image:
https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/workstation/

New features 10.2

- Computer manufacturers will be interested in the preinstallation mode 
(OEM mode) (https://www.altlinux.org/Installer/OEM).
- Added Timeshift 23.12. This program is designed to create snapshots of 
system files and settings.
- In the installer, at the disk preparation stage, it became possible to 
create subpartitions of the BtrFS. This file system uses accelerated 
operations with any files thanks to copy-on-write technology which 
affects fault tolerance and ease of administration. A security benefit 
when using BtrFS is the creation of a restore point before updating the 
system.
- A module has been added to the System Control Center (Alterator) for 
remote configuration of the system via the alterator-fbi network (Form 
Based Interface) which provides a web-based management interface.
- Changes have been made to the text of the license agreement.
- In installation profiles for the Group Policies section it is now 
possible to fine-tune the set of packages to be installed.

New Application Versions
(software versions may differ on the Elbrus architecture)

The distribution is built on the basis of the kernel un-def-6.1. The 
std-def-5.10 kernel is also available. On the AArch64 architecture, an 
alternative kernel is un-def instead of rpi-un.
MATE 1.26 desktop environment.
LibreOffice-still office suite 7.6.
Firefox ESR web browser 115.8.
The application launch environment for Win32 API is Wine 8.14.
Connection broker client for creating and managing virtual desktops 
OpenUDS 3.6.
Appinstall 1.4.

Read more on the Wiki (in Russian):
https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Рабочая_Станция_10

The new version of the distribution kit is based on the stable branch of 
the Platform 10 repository and does not involve incompatible changes 
when moving to 10.2.

More about the image and its updates you can found at:
https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/p10/images/alt-workstation

You can also view and download distributions of other products:
http://getalt.ru

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With best regards,
Maria Fokanova
community manager