ALT Linux 5 School

ALT Linux School 2009 (aka ALT Linux 5 School)
A set of ALT Linux distributions targetted at educational institutions:
 * ALT Linux 5.0.0 School Lite
 * ALT Linux 5.0.0 School Junior
 * ALT Linux 5.0.0 School Master

Caution! The current state is beta. The final release may contain siginificant changes from the current one.

Software overview

 * Linux kernel 2.6.30
 * OpenOffice.org 3.1.0.6
 * XFCE 4.6.1 (ALT Linux 5.0.0 Lite)
 * GNOME 2.26 (ALT Linux 5.0.0 Junior)
 * KDE 4.3.0 (ALT Linux 5.0.0 Master)
 * GIMP 2.6.7
 * Scribus 1.3.5.1
 * Inkscape 0.47

Published versions

 * Beta: August, 27th, 2009

What's new (compared to the Free Software Suite-2008)

 * Up-to-date versions of most software included
 * Use GNOME desktop environment in ALT Linux Junior, KDE4 in ALT Linux Master
 * New lookout
 * Live CD allows you to install a system to your hard disc
 * ALT Linux Junior and ALT Linux Master contain additional software:
 * Dia
 * iTalc
 * iTest
 * KuMir IDE
 * Avidemux
 * Code::Blocks
 * Geany
 * FreeNX
 * recordmydesktop (qt/gtk, depending on the DE)
 * VirtualBox
 * YAGF (CuneiForm-powered OCR system with graphical interface)
 * In addition, ALT Linux Junior includes Anjuta 2, an IDE for GNOME

Download
Only -ru- images are available at the moment. You can switch to the English interface (and go on with installation or running a LiveCD in English) by pressing F2 at the boot screen. Sorry for inconvenience.

Software changes (compared to the Free Software Suite-2008)

 * 1) There's no Scilab in ALT Linux Lite.
 * 2) ClamAV antivirus is not included into ALT Linux Master. It is still available as part of ALT Linux Lite and ALT Linux Junior.
 * 3) SKF plugin for Squid is not available in this beta (if you don't know what it is, you don't need it).
 * 4) ALT Linux Junior uses GNOME as the primary environment, with File-Roller as the primary archiver.
 * 5) Instead of Quanta, Bluefish is added to ALT Linux Junior, Kate to ALT Linux Master.
 * 6) There's Code::Blocks instead of KDevelop in ALT Linux Junior and ALT Linux Master.
 * 7) Instead of KPDF, there's Evince in ALT Linux Junior, oKular in ALT Linux Master.

Known bugs

 * 1) No rescue mode yet
 * 2) No documentation
 * 3) Unfinished localization for any language except English
 * 4) No help for some parts of ALT Linux System Management Center
 * 5) Thunderbird doesn't open hyperlinks in e-mails
 * 6) No/wrong icons for some steps of installer
 * 7) Arrow and Fn keys on additional keyboard don't work in mc when using KDE.
 * 8) When switching to a tty, the keyboard layout switcher is being reset to Ctrl-Shift
 * 9) Konqueror doesn't show history properly
 * 10) Audacity doesn't read mp3 files out of the box
 * 11) The installation source menus does not operate
 * 12) Problems with non UTF-8 charsets in Zip-archives (including those created in other OSes)
 * 13) On some laptops, keyboard fails to work after Suspend to RAM
 * 14) No examples and empty Welcome page in Eclipse
 * 15) No way to install to hard disc in "LiveCD with sessions" mode
 * 16) The background doesn't scale when installing from a LiveCD
 * 17) memtest doesn't work from the boot screen
 * 18) In XFCE, there's no 'System Management Center' launcher in the menu

Screenshots
The screenshots are taken from the Russian wiki page; English localization of the interface is available, too.

Discussion
You can discuss ALT Linux School 2009 in the English-speaking ALT Linux community list.