ALT Platform

ALT Platform

A technology suite for building system
and application software

Alt Platform is a technology suite for building system and application software and releasing distributions.

Specifications and licensing

ALT Platform enables you to create

ALT Platform 4 Operating systems for large enterprises, tailored to their needs
ALT Platform 5 Operating systems with pre-installed additional software
ALT Platform 6 Specialized operating systems for equipment: ATMs, industrial controllers, fire-fighting systems, etc.
ALT Platform 7 National operating systems in different languages
ALT Platform 8 Applications compatible with ALT OS and distributions built with ALT Platform
ALT Platform 9 Program packages to integrate with the ALT OS environment
ALT Platform 10 Additional private repositories
ALT Platform 11 In-house distribution solutions

ALT Platform is designed for

ALT Platform 12 Customers who need to use free software projects that are not included in the register of the Ministry of Digital Technology, Communication and Mass Media
ALT Platform 13 Customers who are developing their own distributions
ALT Platform 14 Developers who are creating ALT-based domestic applications or system software

Components and functionality

ALT Platform Builder, a server operating system used to organize developers’ workstations and build environments. The OS can be deployed on physical or virtual machines. For security reasons, ALT Platform Builder does not have a graphical user interface, but has a web-based management interface.

Hasher, a tool for building reproducible RPM packages compatible with the ALT OS in an isolated environment. Hasher allows you to check package integrity, dependencies and perform a variety of tests.

Access to a stable branch of the repository.

ALT Platform 15 Gear – a tool for building RPM packages from Git repositories.
ALT Platform 16 Mkimage-profiles – a set of ready-made profiles for creating distribution images. Three levels of vendor technical support: basic, standard and advanced.
ALT Platform 17 Alterator-mirror – a service for creating local copies of repositories. It allows you to create as many copies of a repository as you need, and flexibly manage updates.
ALT Platform 18 Hasher – a tool for building reproducible RPM packages compatible with the ALT OS in an isolated environment. Hasher allows you to check package integrity, dependencies and perform a variety of tests.

The package includes a repository and the ALT Platform Builder server operating system. Please refer to the documentation for a description of the functionality.

The ALT Platform Repository

Based on a stable branch

  • A repository (called “the bank” in the documentation) of program source codes with a history of changes.
  • A repository (called “the bank” in the documentation) of binary packages, with a dependency control system.
The ALT Platform Builder server OS
Is part of ALT Platform and is also available as a separate distribution.

Get the product

The ALT Platform software is available under a license agreement. Distribution of derivative operating system distributions based on the ALT Platform under a license other than GNU GPLv3 is subject to a written license agreement with BaseALT LLC.
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Technical support for the ALT Platform product is described in the Life Cycle document.

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Technical support for ALT Platform users is provided under a contract with BaseALT LLC on SLA terms. For questions and advice, contact sales@basealt.ru.

Download ALT Platform Builder

Installation image x86_64 (alt-platform-builder-10.0.0.0-x86_64.iso) (1.5 GB) (1.5 Gb)
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