ASPLinux is Russian company developing
ASPLinux distribution and providing
a wide range of professional services
such as porting existing applications
to Linux from other OS, development
of embedded GNU/Linux solutions for
custom hardware platforms such as consumer
electronic devices, including porting
GNU/Linux OS itself if needed, software
development for GNU/Linux, technical
support, consulting, training. In March
2001 ASPLinux and Black Cat Linux Team,
developers of the popular in Russia
and CIS Linux distrubution, merged.
ASPLinux company headquarters are located
in Moscow, Russia and it has offices
in the Ukraine and representative offices
in Bulgaria, USA, Singapore and Korea.
ASPLinux 7.3 Features
Office Work
- last stable KDE version;
- possibility of setting up most frequently used Cyrillic
encodings cp1251 and ISO8859-5 as basic ones added;
- now you can easily change your basic encodings;
- OpenOffice.org 1.0 included.
Convenient For Linux Newbies
- yum update system takes current updates from our FTP
automatically.
Better Security
- support package for eTokenPro USB interface authentication key
(developed by Aladdin company) included;
- OpenWall patch protects you from buffer-overflow attacks and
many others.
Enhanced Network Subsystem
- last version of iptables;
- improved QoS support: HTB, IMQ for effective traffic handling;
- more convenient and functional work with firewall. netfilter is
enhanced: quota, pkttype, mport, Nth, psd, random, realm, time, dscp,
ttl, length6 added.
New Compatibility List
- 2.4.18 kernel includes lots of new drivers (featuring ALSA and
XFS);
- NVidia drivers included;
- XFree86 4.2 package was built with enhanced video support for
ATI (GATOS project);
- distribution supports VIA c3 CPU and VIA Eden integrated
platform.
File Systems
- distribution supports XFS file system (POSIX ACL);
- latest NTFS driver (read-only) included.
Improved Installation
- telnet installation is implemented;
- it is possible now to tune X Window System in framebuffer mode;
- koi8-r, cp1251 and iso8859-5 encodings for Russian and Ukranian
language supported;
- GRUB boot manager supported;
- software RAID in text mode installation supported;
- CD-RW and DVD are automatically recognized during installation;
- installation CD md5 self-checking prior installation;
- user defined package set can be installed;
- Bulgarian language support.
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