ALT Linux

ALT Linux
ALT Workstation 10
DeveloperALT Linux Ltd and ALT Linux Team
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateActive
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseMarch 2001 (2001-03)
Latest release11.1  / 3 September 2025 (3 September 2025)
Latest previewSisyphus / released daily
Available inMultilingual (but installation process in Russian by default; can edit the language at boot of livecd by changing ru_RU to en_US)
Update method0.5 years per stabilization
Package managerAPT-RPM
Supported platformsAMD64, i586, ARMv7, e2k, AArch64
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux kernel)
Default
user interface
bash; KDE Plasma Desktop (in Desktop), Xfce (in Desktop Lite)
Official websiteen.altlinux.org English
altlinux.org Russian

ALT Linux is a set of Russian operating systems based on RPM Package Manager (RPM) and built on a Linux kernel and Sisyphus package repository. ALT Linux has been developed collectively by ALT Linux Team developers community and ALT Linux Ltd.