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

[Maria Fokanova]

Greetings!

The release of the ALT Server 10.2 OS on the platform 10 (p10 Aronia 
branch) is ready. The distribution is prepared for x86_64 and AArch64. 
The default kernel version is un-def-6.1 when installing the system. The 
std-def-5.10 kernel is also available.

Download the release image:
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server/
https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server/
http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p10/images/server/


New features and tools

* Installation profiles:
     - Minimal installation - a lightweight set of installed packages.
     - Office server - services for the corporate environment.
     - Samba-DC server (AD controller) - domain infrastructure technologies.
     - Home server - graphical environment and diagnostic tools.

* The Group Policies section with subsections has appeared in the 
profile settings:
     - Administration Tools (admc, gpui packages);
     - Group policy templates (admx-basealt, admx-firefox, 
admx-chromium, admx-yandex-browser, admx-msi-setup);
     - Client (application tools) (gpupdate, alterator-gpupdate, 
task-auth-ad-sssd).

* The Samba package has been updated to version 4.19. The group policy 
management tools have been updated - gpupdate 0.9.13.7, admc 0.15.2, 
gpui 0.2.40.

* Made over the basic set of services.

* Added support for RAID arrays based on INTEL VROC technology with IMSM 
metadata (Intel Matrix Storage Manager) - selecting and creating an IMSM 
partition, installation and booting of the system. For the IMSM device 
to work, the mdmon external metadata monitoring service has been added 
to the rescue LiveCD (Rescue).

* usbutils has been added to the rescue LiveCD image to diagnose 
hardware configuration.

* The gostcrypto repository has been added to the list of repositories.

* The chrony package is selected for network time synchronization.

* A local-policy has been added to the main set of packages with a set 
of control configurations and the setting of local security policies 
when working in conjunction with gpupdate.


Improvements

* You can change the color of a command prompt in the terminal by adding 
the color-prompt-and-man package.

* Adding some packages to solve user problems:

     Improved Wine installation;
     btrfs-progs is useful when installing a minimal system on BtrFS;

* The method of connecting the repository on removable media has been 
changed.


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

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.

Read more on the wiki (in Russian):
https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Сервер_10

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

-- 
With best regards,
Maria Fokanova
community manager