![]() Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. List of Debian-based Linux distributions.Unity Operating System, a Linux distribution planned to be used on Chinese government computers.Version history Versions of Astra Linux Special Edition In 2022, subsequent departure of Microsoft from the Russian market, Astra Linux announced that it was planning to be publicly listed on the Moscow Exchange, although it has not yet given a planned timeline. In 2021, several Russian nuclear power plants and subsidiaries of Rosatom are planned to switch to Astra Linux, with a total of 15000 users. In 2020, Astra Linux sold more than a million copies in licenses and generated 2 billion rubles in sales. In 2019 Gazprom national gas/oil holding announced Astra Linux implementation, in 2020 nuclear corporation Rosatom, in early 2021 Russian Railways was reported to do so. Since 2019 "super-protected" tablet computers branded MIG are available with Astra Linux, smartphones are expected. In February 2019, Astra Linux was announced to be implemented at Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in China. In February 2018, Rusbitech announced it has ported Astra Linux to Russian-made Elbrus microprocessors. In January 2018, it was announced that Astra Linux was going to be deployed to all Russian Army computers, and Microsoft Windows will be dropped. Īlso there were plans on cooperation of Rusbitech and Huawei. There are talks to deploy mass use of Astra Linux in many state institutions of the Republic of Crimea – legitimate use of other popular OSes is questionable because of international sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Particularly, it is used in the Russian National Center for Defence Control. The Special Edition version (paid) is used in many Russian state-related organizations. It was part of the advisory board of The Document Foundation, but was suspended on 26 February 2022 because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Rusbitech has partnership relations with The Linux Foundation. Īstra Linux Special Edition is being used in the Russian National Center for Defence ControlĪstra Linux is a recognized Debian derivative. It is declared the Astra Linux licenses correspond with Russian and international laws and "don't contradict with the spirit and demands of GPL license". The module, besides Astra Linux, also supports OSes with Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 5.x.x, as well as several Microsoft Windows OSes. It prevents unauthorized access and offers some other raised digital security features. Rusbitech also manufactures a "soft/hardware trusted boot control module" MAKSIM-M1 ("М643М1") with PCI bus. The main differences between the two are the fact that the former is paid, while the latter is free the former is available for x86-64 architecture, ARM architecture and Elbrus architecture, while the latter is only available for x86-64 architecture the former has a security certification and provides 3 levels of OS security (which are named after Russian cities and which from the lowest to the highest are: Oryol, Voronezh and Smolensk), while the latter doesn't have the security certification and only provides the lowest level of OS security ( Oryol). There are two available editions of the OS: the main one is called "Special Edition" and the other one is called "Common Edition". The creator of the OS is the Scientific/Manufacturing Enterprise Rusbitech which is applying solutions according to Russian Government decree No.2299-р of that orders federal authorities and budget institutions to implement Free Software use. Server versions of Astra Linux are certified to work with Huawei equipment. Aside from army and police, it is now being supplied to educational, healthcare and other state institutions, as well as in industry giants such as RZD, Gazprom, Rosatom and others. In the course of 2010s, as Russian authorities and industry were trying to lower dependence on Western products (" import substitution industrialization"), Astra Linux became widely used by Russian civilians as a universal operating system for personal computers. It has been officially certified by Russian Defense Ministry, Federal Service for Technical and Export Control and Federal Security Service. ![]() It provides data protection up to the level of "top secret" in Russian classified information grade by featuring mandatory access control. Initially it was created and developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies. Astra Linux is a Russian Linux-based computer operating system (OS) that is being widely deployed in the Russian Federation in order to replace Microsoft Windows.
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