• Basalt open source software products are based on one of the world's largest independent free software repositories, created as part of the Russian project Sisyphus. This allows the company to provide the full software lifecycle and long-term support.
• Basalt SPO provides technical infrastructure for almost any import substitution project. Constantly improves its technologies, ports the repository to new hardware architectures.
• The entire life cycle of Basalt SPO solutions is controlled from Russian jurisdiction. The company has Russian founders and Russian development centers.
• "ALT" is a mature OS that maintains continuity with ALT Linux - the oldest and most widespread domestic OS.

Only Basalt SPO products can be used as a reliable basis for import substitution of critical IT systems of any scale and complexity

• Enterprise level servers are automatically integrated into the existing IT infrastructure based on MS AD. They also allow you to completely replace it with imports, using only packages already included in the repositories and guaranteed to be updated.
• "ALT" is the only OS that technologically and organizationally supports integrators. The OS contains original technologies and tools for the creation and maintenance by integrators and IT departments of several categories of their own specialized products (specialized distributions, modified assemblies).
• This allows integrators to make money not only from Linux licenses, but also from their own high-margin products and services.

Licensing of ALT OS is convenient for all categories of customers

• It is simple, non-restrictive, and supports CAPEX (capital expenditure) and OPEX (subscription fee only) schemes.

"ALT" is the only domestic OS that has high-quality scalable technical support throughout the Russian Federation, which is not inferior to the best Western operating systems

• Technical support for Basalt products is one SLA throughout Russia and real IT processes, adapted to the features of open source software. The level of technical support allows you to use the ALT OS in responsible systems supporting the core activities of the enterprise.
• Technical support "Basalt SPO", which relies on the resources and technologies of a strategic partner - ALP Group and operates in more than 300 cities of the Russian Federation - this is a joint service professional IT outsourcing service providers(ALP Group, 1st, 2nd lines), the ALP Group competence center and the Basalt SPO competence center, responsible for the 3rd line.
• Professional vendor support service providers provide: quick start of support, wide geographical coverage, easy scalability, technological effectiveness, taking into account all the features of Russian and free software, mature IT processes, a clear understanding of the needs of narrow market segments.
• Combining the competencies of Basalt SPO and ALP Group allows for any flow of requests to guarantee the fulfillment of even the most stringent SLA conditions for requests of any complexity. In addition, professional technical support guarantees prompt elimination problems, if they did occur.

Additionally

• ALT from Basalt SPO is the only OS guaranteed to support all Russian processors"Elbrus-2000" and "Baikal-T1"
• ALT from Basalt SPO is the only domestic OS that fully supports educational process based on open source software in universities. With the help of Basalt, universities can organize both a system of advanced training for users and developers, and full-fledged training in IT specialties.

Important technological features of ALT OS

• Compatible with Active Directory at both the server and workstation levels.
• Own domain controller based on FreeIPA (for Linux workstations).
• Replacement of Exchange-based collaboration tools (SOGo).
• Virtualization system included in a certified distribution kit (cloud solutions).

• Office suite (LibreOffice) with good compatibility with the Microsoft office suite.
• Availability of a separate certified by FSTEC Russia of a product that can be used for systems for processing personal data and state secrets (up to category "C"). The certificate requires security updates to be applied immediately, rather than after an inspection.
• ESIA support

About Basalt SPO products

Operating systems (OS) "Basalt SPO" for servers and workstations

• OS Viola Server and Viola Workstation are backbone IT solutions for large, geographically distributed government organizations.
• OS Alt Education is focused on everyday use when planning, organizing and conducting training in universities, training centers of large IT companies, etc.
• With their help, the customer can create and effectively maintain a traditional, cloud or hybrid IT infrastructure, including directory services, collaboration tools, support for virtualization and clustering.
• The technologies integrated into these operating systems allow a large government organization to migrate smoothly, without loss of time and money, from Microsoft OS to Basalt SPO operating systems.

• Basalt SPO systems, oriented for use on servers and workstations, contain, in addition to the OS, a wide range of application programs. They are compatible with a wide range of other domestic programs.
• The solutions embedded in them also make it possible to produce full replacement infrastructure, including the Active Directory directory service and the MS Exchange collaboration system.

Directory service

A domain controller for Microsoft Active Directory is:

• A single space for user and group accounts.
• Centralized settings for access to resources.
• End-to-end authorization on the network with one-time password entry.

Server and client parts supported:

• ALT workstations can be part of an Active Directory domain, implemented on the basis of both Windows Server, and ALT Server;
• Windows workstations can be managed using ALT Server-based domain controllers;
• Enablement and replication of Active Directory domain controllers based on ALT Server are supported, with the possible withdrawal of domain controllers based on Windows Server.

Organizing Collaboration (SOGo)

SOGo is a collaboration service that provides the customer company with:

• Working with by email, calendars and contacts, joint planning.
• Fully featured web interface for collaboration.
• Support as clients for Outlook 2010, newer versions and Mozilla Thunderbird.
• Integration with domain Active Directory with full support for Windows-based clients.

Supports smooth migration from Microsoft Exchange Server to SOGo with the transfer of all user data.

Introduction of Basalt SPO products

Medical institutions
(50,000 jobs)

Educational institutions (5,000 organizations)

State Duma of the Russian Federation

Portal public services Russian Federation

State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM

All-Russian Research Institute of Automation

December 14, 2017, Moscow Today the company Basalt SPO » - Russian developer operating systems(OS) for the public sector, state corporations and large businesses - represents the first line of OS in the domestic IT market that supports all Russian processors. New development"Basalt SPO" opens up the possibility of joint use of all Russian processors as part of modern information systems. The unified OS makes these processors attractive to customers, hardware manufacturers and software developers. In three years, the company plans to occupy about 80% of the entire OS market for Russian processors.

Supported processor architectures

ALT OS will support the following Russian processors: Elbrus (for high-performance servers, workstations, laptops and tablets, ARM (32- and 64-bit), MIPS (32- and 64-bit). A version of ALT OS will also be created for processors of the S/390 family, widely used in mainframes. Industrial versions of the ALT OS for ARM (32- and 64-bit) are already being produced; for other Russian processors, the release of the OS to the market will occur simultaneously with the mass production of computers based on it. In the near future In the meantime, the Basalt SPO company will launch a corresponding cooperation program with computer equipment manufacturers.

Thus, the ALT OS line covers all major types of computing equipment: servers of varying performance, high-performance workstations, office PCs, industrial computers, mobile devices, controllers and telecommunications equipment (switches and routers), information terminals that require speed of processing and transmission of information.

We especially note the important quality of computing systems based on Elbrus - power of attorney. All key components of these complexes were created by MCST and have no undeclared capabilities. This allows the Elbrus to be used in infrastructure with increased requirements for information security.

Features of support for Russian processors in ALT OS

Let us note the main features of the ALT OS line for Russian processors.

Firstly, on each hardware platform, ALT OS runs in “native” mode (and not in x86 instruction system emulation mode). This allows you to achieve maximum performance (the gain, depending on the tasks, can reach hundreds of percent), as well as implement support for all the specific features of the processor.

Secondly, the ALT OS line for Russian processors (as well as operating systems for Intel architecture) is created on the basis of the Russian Sisyphus repository, which is completely independent of any foreign repositories and is developed by Russian companies and individuals who are not under control of foreign legal and individuals. Today Sisyphus is one of the world's four largest independent software repositories (along with Debian, Red Hat and SUSE), it implements complete technological process creation, modernization and support of continuous life cycle operating systems based on modern technologies.

The independence of “Sisyphus” from other repositories (for example, Debian) completely eliminates risks that are inevitable for any dependent OS, for example, the inevitable break in the life cycle of such an OS due to the fact that its developer has not yet had time to transfer his developments to the released version of the base OS, as The next version of the latter is already appearing. The full range of such risks is much broader. Among them are the risks of information security, as well as the lack of support for domestic processors and the practical impossibility of influencing the direction of development of the repository and the base OS created on its basis. ALT operating systems are free from all these problems. The customer can safely choose them as the basis of complexes designed for a service life of tens of years.

Thirdly, for each family of Russian processors, Basalt SPO implements a full technological cycle for creating a line of operating systems, including porting tools that provide work with the repository, assembling and testing the OS itself and other distribution products for a given hardware platform, as well as transfer and testing applied and infrastructure software, ready to install from the system repositories.

Fourthly, the ALT OS for Russian processors (as well as the ALT OS for Intel architecture) has built-in free analogues of Microsoft Active Directory directory services and tools for organizing collaboration Microsoft work Exchange (Samba DC/Free IPA and SoGo, respectively), which greatly simplifies migration to import-independent software. Moreover, the directory service and collaboration infrastructure can be created on servers with Russian processors (for example, Elbrus). And other servers and workstations - with ALT OS (for any supported platforms) and Windows OS - will work under their control. This makes it possible to transfer critical infrastructure for an enterprise not only to the domestic ALT OS (which was the case before), but also - for the first time - to a complex of Russian OS and Russian hardware.

Fifthly, ALT operating systems are provided with technical support based on SLA throughout the Russian Federation in 24x7x365 mode, in a “one window” format (implemented through a partnership with ALP Gorup). Since 2017, technology has been implemented to support the ALT OS complex (stack), DBMS (PostgresPro/PostgresSQL) and other infrastructure and application software products(for example, EDMS) as a whole. Similar technical support will be provided for the ALT OS for Russian processors - after the release of their industrial versions.

Market Implications

The new development of Basalt SPO is of paramount importance for customer organizations, manufacturers of computer equipment and telecommunications equipment based on Russian processors, as well as Russian software developers.

Elimination of obvious or camouflaged dependence on foreign software repositories and foreign operating systems and the use of computer technology without undeclared capabilities allows customers to dramatically increase the level of security of information systems.

The customer receives a single managed technology platform with an unlimited life cycle, centralized management, unified technology for migration to import-independent IT solutions, as well as the most unified wide range of ready-to-use application and infrastructure software. Thanks to this, an organization can reduce operating costs and optimize costs for import-independent computer equipment. In addition, the customer sharply reduces training costs, since, having acquired skills in working with the ALT OS and application software on any supported hardware platform, employees (users and system administrators) will retain them to the maximum extent when switching to computers built on any Russian processors. In many cases, such a transition may not be noticeable at all.

A single line of operating systems (for servers, workstations and education systems), covering all Russian processors, eliminates the fragmentation of the market, which is extremely inconvenient for all interested parties. When porting software to Linux, it is much more convenient for developers of Russian software to focus on a single technological platform, the most unified methods and sets of tools, as well as a single range of developer support services. Effect: porting costs are reduced several times.

Taking into account all of the above, a single line of ALT OS, which maximizes the capabilities of all Russian processors, sharply reduces their time to market, and also expands their export potential.

About company:

Basalt SPO was founded in 2015. In 2016, the company released the first line of Russian operating systems for servers and workstations (ALT OS), developed specifically for large organizations and the education system as a system-critical enterprise-scale solution. These OS are included in Single register Russian programs for electronic computers and databases. Today, Basalt SPO operating systems for workstations and servers are being actively implemented by the company’s partners at commercial enterprises and in the public sector. Since their appearance on the market, ALT OS has a single guaranteed level technical support throughout the Russian Federation.

"Basalt SPO" is the developer software platform for creating ready-made solutions and IT infrastructure of any scale. Developments of "Basalt SPO" are based on one of the world's largest independent repositories of free software "Sisyphus" ( Sisyphus ) and the international community that supports it. Thanks to this, Basalt SPO ports the repository and its developments to new hardware architectures and develops complex free solutions at the enterprise level.

The company "Basalt SPO" is a member NP RUSSOFT and enters ARPP "Domestic Software" The company has licenses from FSTEC for the development and production of protective equipment confidential information(Reg. No. 1612 and 3025 dated September 16, 2016). Licenses are valid for an indefinite period.

The Basalt SPO company, a Russian developer of operating systems (OS) for the public sector, state corporations and large businesses, presented the first OS line in the domestic IT market that supports all Russian processors, the company said in a statement.

The new development of Basalt SPO opens up the possibility of joint use of all Russian processors as part of modern information systems. The unified OS makes these processors attractive to customers, hardware manufacturers and software developers. In three years, the company plans to occupy about 80% of the entire OS market for Russian processors.

Supported processor architectures

ALT OS will support the following Russian processors: Elbrus (for high-performance servers, workstations, laptops and tablets, ARM (32- and 64-bit), MIPS (32- and 64-bit). A version of ALT OS will also be created for processors of the S/390 family, widely used in mainframes. Industrial versions of the ALT OS for ARM (32- and 64-bit) are already being produced; for other Russian processors, the release of the OS to the market will occur simultaneously with the mass production of computers based on it. In the near future In the meantime, the Basalt SPO company will launch a corresponding cooperation program with computer equipment manufacturers.

Thus, the ALT OS line covers all major types of computing equipment: servers of varying performance, high-performance workstations, office PCs, industrial computers, mobile devices, controllers and telecommunications equipment (switches and routers), information terminals that require speed of processing and transmission of information.

We especially note the important quality of computing systems based on Elbrus - power of attorney. All key components of these complexes were created by MCST and have no undeclared capabilities. This allows Elbrus to be used in infrastructure with increased information security requirements.

Features of support for Russian processors in ALT OS

Let us note the main features of the ALT OS line for Russian processors.

Firstly, on each hardware platform, ALT OS runs in “native” mode (and not in x86 instruction system emulation mode). This allows you to achieve maximum performance (the gain, depending on the tasks, can reach hundreds of percent), as well as implement support for all the specific features of the processor.

Secondly, the ALT OS line for Russian processors (as well as operating systems for Intel architecture) is created on the basis of the Russian Sisyphus repository, which is completely independent of any foreign repositories and is developed by Russian companies and individuals who are not under control of foreign legal entities and individuals. Today, Sisyphus is one of the world's four largest independent software repositories (along with Debian, Red Hat and SUSE), it implements a complete technological process for creating, modernizing and supporting the continuous life cycle of operating systems based on modern technologies.

The independence of “Sisyphus” from other repositories (for example, Debian) completely eliminates risks that are inevitable for any dependent OS, for example, the inevitable break in the life cycle of such an OS due to the fact that its developer has not yet had time to transfer his developments to the released version of the base OS, as The next version of the latter is already appearing. The full range of such risks is much broader. Among them are the risks of information security, as well as the lack of support for domestic processors and the practical impossibility of influencing the direction of development of the repository and the base OS created on its basis. ALT operating systems are free from all these problems. The customer can safely choose them as the basis of complexes designed for a service life of tens of years.

Thirdly, for each family of Russian processors, Basalt SPO implements a full technological cycle for creating a line of operating systems, including porting tools that provide work with the repository, assembling and testing the OS itself and other distribution products for a given hardware platform, as well as transfer and testing application and infrastructure software ready for installation from system repositories.

Fourthly, the ALT OS for Russian processors (as well as the ALT OS for Intel architecture) has built-in free analogues of Microsoft Active Directory directory services and Microsoft Exchange collaboration tools (Samba DC/Free IPA and SoGo, respectively), which is significant simplifies migration to import-independent software. Moreover, the directory service and collaboration infrastructure can be created on servers with Russian processors (for example, Elbrus). And other servers and workstations - with ALT OS (for any supported platforms) and Windows OS - will work under their control. This makes it possible to transfer critical infrastructure for an enterprise not only to the domestic ALT OS (which was the case before), but also - for the first time - to a complex of Russian OS and Russian hardware.

Fifthly, ALT operating systems are provided with technical support based on SLA throughout the Russian Federation in 24x7x365 mode, in a “one window” format (implemented through a partnership with ALP Gorup). Since 2017, technology has been implemented to support the complex (stack) of ALT OS, DBMS (PostgresPro/PostgresSQL) and other infrastructure and application software products (for example, EDMS) as a single whole. Similar technical support will be provided for the ALT OS for Russian processors - after the release of their industrial versions.

Market Implications

The new development of Basalt SPO is of paramount importance for customer organizations, manufacturers of computer equipment and telecommunications equipment based on Russian processors, as well as Russian software developers.

Elimination of obvious or camouflaged dependence on foreign software repositories and foreign operating systems and the use of computer technology without undeclared capabilities allows customers to dramatically increase the level of security of information systems.

The customer receives a single managed technology platform with an unlimited life cycle, centralized management, unified technology for migration to import-independent IT solutions, as well as the most unified wide range of ready-to-use application and infrastructure software. Thanks to this, an organization can reduce operating costs and optimize costs for import-independent computer equipment. In addition, the customer sharply reduces training costs, since, having acquired skills in working with the ALT OS and application software on any supported hardware platform, employees (users and system administrators) will retain them to the maximum extent when moving to computers built on any Russian processors. In many cases, such a transition may not be noticeable at all.

A single line of operating systems (for servers, workstations and education systems), covering all Russian processors, eliminates the fragmentation of the market, which is extremely inconvenient for all interested parties. When porting software to Linux, it is much more convenient for developers of Russian software to focus on a single technological platform, the most unified methods and sets of tools, as well as a single range of developer support services. Effect: porting costs are reduced several times.

Taking into account all of the above, a single line of ALT OS, which maximizes the capabilities of all Russian processors, sharply reduces their time to market, and also expands their export potential.

12/14/2017, Thu, 15:03, Moscow time , Text: Valeria Shmyrova

The Basalt SPO company has launched a line of OSes capable of working with domestic processors of different architectures. In this case, commands are given to processors directly, through the compiler, without emulating x86 commands.

ALT OS line

The Russian developer Basalt SPO has created a line of operating systems called OS ALT, which provides support for all Russian processors. We are talking about support for Elbrus processors, which are used in servers, workstations, laptops and tablets, as well as compatibility with ARM and MIPS architectures in their 32- and 64-bit versions. The line is planned to be supplemented with another OS option designed for S/390 processors used in mainframes. ALT OS is rebuilt from ALT OS for x86 version 9.

So far, only those versions of ALT OS that support 32- and 64-bit ARM implementations are actually released. The company said that the remaining OS will be released as equipment based on the corresponding processor is put into mass production. "Basalt SPO" is going to cooperate in this matter with equipment manufacturers.

The new line of OS is designed to work with servers of various capacities, workstations, office PCs, industrial computers, mobile devices, controllers and telecom equipment, including switches and routers, as well as information terminals where the speed of data processing and transmission is important. The developer promises round-the-clock and year-round support for the ALT OS in a one-window format according to the Service Level Agreement (SLA) standard. Comprehensive OS support is possible along with the DBMS and other components.

Product benefits

The developers include the advantage of the product that the development infrastructure allows for each processor to collect program code that issues commands to the processor immediately in its language. In particular, on the Elbrus processor, ALT OS runs in “native” mode - without emulating x86 architecture commands. As Basalt SPO explains, this can significantly increase productivity, when performing some tasks - “up to hundreds of percent.”

The Basalt SPO logo is similar to the Alt Linux logo, with the difference that the penguins have been replaced by fur seals

Another advantage is that ALT OS includes free components similar to Microsoft Active Directory directory services and Microsoft Exchange collaboration tools such as Samba DC/Free IPA and SoGo. This helps simplify migration to domestic software, the developers note. Since catalogs and collaboration can be implemented on servers with Russian processors, in particular Elbrus, the customer will be able to transfer critical infrastructure to a Russian OS and Russian hardware at the same time. Basalt SPO claims that this was not possible before.

Another advantage of the ALT OS stems from the specifics of Russian processors, including Elbrus. These processors have no undeclared capabilities, which increases the level of security of the systems where they are used. The emergence of a line of OSes designed to work with them should make processors more in demand. Basalt SPO claims that it can increase its share of the OS market for Russian processors to 80% in three years. The developers also note that a single line of OS for all Russian processors will make it easier for Russian software developers to port it to Linux.

Repository "Sisyphus"

The ALT OS line is based on the Russian Sisyphus repository, which is developed and controlled by persons from Russia, without foreign influence. "Sisyphus" allows you to create, upgrade and support the OS. Its foreign analogues are Debian, Red Hat and SUSE.

Since Sisyphus is independent of other repositories, ALT OS should avoid problems with the continuity of the life cycle that arise, for example, when there is a discrepancy in the timing of the release of new versions and contributions to them latest changes. Also, the independence of the repository should reduce information security risks and make it possible to practically influence the development of the repository and the operating systems based on it. Thanks to all this, the ALT OS will be in demand in systems whose service life is measured in decades, the developers believe.

Russian MIPS processors

Russian manufacturers have today created processors of various architectures. In particular, if we talk about the MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) architecture, we should mention the Baikal-T1 processor from Baikal Electronics. The architecture itself is designed in accordance with the RISC concept (that is, for processors with a reduced instruction set). The development of the processor was completed at the end of 2014, and in December Baikal Electronics transferred the so-called GDS product code to the TSMC factory for its release. In May 2015, the company announced the release of engineering samples.

Having made sure that the samples were working, Baikal Electronics requested and received a preferential loan for mass production in October 2015. With the company's own investments at RUB 288 million. the volume of this loan amounted to 500 million rubles. In September 2016, the so-called installation batch of approximately 10 thousand processors saw the light of day. In March 2017, Baikal Electronics announced the imminent release of the 100,000th industrial batch.

In February 2016, CNews wrote that T-Platforms were replaced in its secure all-in-one for government agencies Intel processors on Baikal-T1, releasing new model“Tavolga terminal”, which became the first mass user device based on them for Baikal. In August 2017, Baikal Electronics conducted a full performance test of the Baikal-T1, operating at a clock frequency of 1.2 GHz. The results obtained were comparable to the characteristics of Intel processors.

Russian ARM processors

As for the ARM architecture, Baikal Electronics has the Baikal-M processor for PCs, Baikal-MS for microservers and Baikal-S for servers.

Baikal-M is designed for desktop PCs, embedded systems, industrial automation, smart cameras, etc. Systems on a chip (SoC) are manufactured using a 28 nm topology. The processors have up to 8 high-performance ARMv8-A cores, ARM Neon vector coprocessors, and up to eight ARM Mali-T628 graphics cores.

Baikal-MS, built on a 28 nm topology, is designed for microservers and embedded systems. They include up to 8 ARMv8-A cores and feature 10GB Ethernet ports for high-speed data transfer and packet routing. Distinctive feature microprocessors of this line should have low power consumption.

Baikal-S are designed for server equipment. They will be produced on a 16 nm topology, will include up to 32 high-performance ARMv8-A cores and support the HMC interface (Hybrid Memory Cube - new type random access memory). Their designed power consumption should not exceed 50 W. The release of engineering samples is scheduled for the end of 2017.

What does Basalt SPO do?

In December 2016, it was reported that Alt Linux's core development team, led by its former deputy CEO Alexey Novodvorsky organized a new structure called “Basalt SPO”. New company 100 million rub. investments to create a line of domestic OS. The funds were invested by the owners of the IVK company through the investment structure they established, the Financial Support Agency, which owned 50% of the shares of Basalt.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Bazalt SPO LLC was officially registered on August 10, 2015. Alexey Novodvorsky now owns 24% of it. Owns 5% each Dmitry Levin, Anton Farygin And Vladimir Farygin. The remaining 2% is credited to Ivan Korovin. The Basalt SPO logo is similar to the Alt Linux logo, but the penguins on it have been replaced with fur seals.

Alt Linux distributions are based on the Sisyphus free software repository. Basalt SPO is now providing the technical infrastructure for Sisyphus, developing its technologies, and also porting the repository to new hardware architectures. “Today we are the first and only company in Russia that brings Russian market products that can, can and must replace Microsoft solutions,” says the CEO of IVK Grigory Sizonenko.

The developers assure that the technologies integrated into the Viola Server and Viola Workstation OS, as well as their own methods for implementing Basalt SPO, allow a large organization to smoothly migrate to them from the Microsoft OS, having completed the transition of both the entire IT infrastructure and and its individual fragments.

Simply Linux (Simply Linux) is an operating system for everyone.

It is easy to use, undemanding to resources, functional and reliable.

After installing Simply Linux to run daily tasks you are unlikely to need anything else - the system includes more than thirty programs for all occasions, as well as device drivers. Antivirus is not included in the kit, but only because it is not necessary - that's all malware will remain outside of your computer. The Simply Linux system is reliably protected.

Our most authoritative critic is the user. We try to focus primarily on you. Choose the most best programs, answer any questions about the operation of the system, write the most detailed instructions, correct errors as quickly as possible and improve Simply Linux towards convenience and functionality.

System advantages:

• versatility. The system is undemanding in terms of resources, has a lightweight graphical shell and is suitable for performing standard tasks at home and in the office. You can start working with it immediately; installing additional programs, antivirus and codecs is not required. In addition, Simply Linux supports the bulk of modern equipment"from the box";

• ease of use. The system has a clear interface, it is easy to install, and easy to interact with;

• availability. Simply Linux can be downloaded and used at home and at work without restrictions;

• Russian developer. The Basalt SPO company is located in Russia and is always ready for cooperation. We have accumulated extensive experience in the field of development, technical support and training of IT specialists and users.

System requirements for installing Simply Linux

For i586 and x86_64 architectures:

• from 512 MB RAM;
• from 25 GB of free hard disk space for the install version and from 10 GB for permanent installation of the live version (with automatic disk partitioning enabled).

Main components and versions

• Linux kernel 4.9.34;
• Xorg graphics stack 1.18.4;
• graphical environment Xfce 4.12;
• Chromium 59 browser;
• mail Thunderbird client 45.8.0;
• office suite LibreOffice 5.2.7.2.

More information is available on the distribution's wiki page.

Download Simply Linux

If possible, use mirrors and official torrent files; the main server may be overloaded. To register at USB Flash and DVD, you should use the recommended tools.

License and distribution terms

The Simply Linux distribution contains both free and non-free components. The appropriate permissions from the copyright holders have been obtained for the distribution of non-free components as part of the distribution kits of LLC Basalt SPO. The copyright for the Simply Linux distribution (Simply Linux) as a composite work belongs to Basalt SPO LLC.

End user rights are defined in License agreement included in the distribution kit. Distributors and OEMs to obtain distribution rights, please contact the sales department at

More details on the rights to use the distribution can be found in the License Agreement.

About the Simply Linux distribution

The history of Simply Linux began in 2009, when ALT Linux Team developer Denis Koryavov released the first version of a distribution kit for home and office, aimed at the novice user. In 2010, Denis transferred the development to Alt Linux, which released several more versions of the distribution based on its platform.

Currently, the development of Simply Linux is continued by the Basalt SPO company. The developer tries to adhere to the basic principles set by the author of the distribution with the first release: a small number of functional Russified programs, ease of use, user-friendly interface, minimum requirements to the equipment. The distribution license also remains unchanged - Simply Linux can be downloaded and used without restrictions.

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