ALT Education product (edition)

ALT Education OS is an easy-to-install and convenient-to-use operating system designed for everyday use in planning, organizing, and conducting the educational process in institutions of various levels. The system is distinguished by its accessibility, reliability, functionality, and low hardware resource requirements.

The ALT Education project is a user-friendly Linux operating system. "User-friendly" here refers to the circle of personal computer users who do not possess intricate system configuration and usage skills. The idea behind the ALT Education project is to foster a sustained interest in free software by demonstrating its convenience, practicality, and effectiveness in the educational environment.

ALT Education includes over 30 fully Russified programs, which are specialized tools for information support of the educational process. These programs are designed to solve key educational tasks: from preparing teaching materials to facilitating interaction between teachers and students. The package also includes modern educational resources: subject-oriented environments, simulators, and learning systems.

One of the key features of the product is the integration of teachers' and students' workstations. Based on ALT Education, it is possible to build a modern, flexible, and secure infrastructure for providing educational materials and organizing interaction using a wide variety of devices — desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, tablets, and e-books.

Advantages of using ALT Education in educational institutions:

• Support for two modern desktop environments: KDE Plasma and XFCE;
• Ability to install without a graphical interface — for server use;
• Selection of package groups depending on the level of education — from preschool institutions to higher education;
• Tools for centralized management of the classroom and student workstations;
• Automatic restoration of the workstation state after a session ends;
• Support for network booting of diskless clients with data saved on the server;
• Guest sessions with auto-login capability;
• Support for centralized network authentication via Active Directory and LDAP/Kerberos infrastructure;
• Availability of graphical system configuration tools, including network authentication setup, time setting and synchronization, user and group management, system log viewing;
• High level of protection against malicious software;
• Full-text search capability using the Recoll program;
• A wide selection of various programs for professional and home use on the Internet, working with documents, complex graphics and animation, audio and video processing, software development, and education.

Within the ALT Education project, we strive to take into account the real needs of the educational process as much as possible: to provide the best programs, answer emerging questions, create detailed instructions, fix errors in the shortest possible time, and constantly work on improving the system. Our goal is to make ALT Education the most convenient, functional, and reliable platform for learning in any educational environment.

The edition defines the list of maintainable components included in the product. The components are divided into sections.

Switching editions is a safe operation in which the installation or removal of components is not performed. To do this, select all the components included in the base section and install them using the graphical tool alt-components or the console the tool is alteratorctl.