From Wikipedia
ALT Linux
ALT Linux Team arose from the merger of IPLabs Linux Team and Linux community of the Institute of Logic, Cognitive Science and Development of Personality.[8] The latter cooperated with Mandrake Linux and SUSE teams to improve localization (specifically Cyrillic), producing a Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition (RE).
At some point, Mandrake and Mandrake RE became in fact different distributions and thus the decision was made to create a separate project. The name ALT was coined, which is a recursive acronym meaning “ALT Linux Team”.
The split led to the creation of the Sisyphus package repository, which is an unstable branch of the ALT Linux development.
In 2007, the Sisyphus repository won a prestigious CNews award in nomination for Information Security
From Alt Linux web page:
ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2009 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom products. ALT Linux produces different types of distributions for various purposes. There are desktop distributions for home and office computers and for corporate servers, universal distributions that include a wide variety of development tools and documentation, certified products, distributions specialized for educational institutions, and distributions for low-powered computers. ALT Linux has its own development infrastructure and repository called Sisyphus, which provides the base for all the different editions of ALT Linux.
From Wikpedia:
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 is available in six different editions, but only Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate are widely available at retail.1 The other editions are focused at other markets, such as the developing world or enterprise use. All editions support the 32-bit (IA-32) processor architecture and all editions except Starter support the 64-bit (x86-64) processor architecture (64-bit installation media is not included in Home Basic edition, but can be obtained from Microsoft).
Windows 7 Ultimate contains all of the same features as Windows 7 Enterprise, but unlike the Enterprise edition, it is available to home users on an individual license basis.1 Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional users are able to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for a fee using Windows Anytime Upgrade if they wish to do so.1 Unlike Windows Vista Ultimate, the Windows 7 Ultimate edition does not include the Windows Ultimate Extras feature or any exclusive features as Microsoft had stated.1 However, even though it is the consumer equivalent to Enterprise, Microsoft will only support Ultimate until 2015, as per Home Premium.
Now, I have found an article comparing these two in common day by day
tasks, like:
What was tested:
Simple everyday operations were used as performance tests:
* Opening of graphic file, map - size 80*80cm, file size 5,2Mb * Opening of OpenOffice.org document, file size 560Kb, 198 pages * Music file playback, artist Moby, track in my heart.wma * Movie file playback. 2 movies were selected for tests 1. Our
Russia: Eggs of Fate (avi), and 2. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound
Human (avi). Also note: Eggs has better quality, but file size is
almost equal for both movies: 700Mb. Probably, new coding methods are
used in Eggs, but I am not sure. But playback went differently for
those files.
Comment. All these files were opened from fileserver in the network
(working on Samba).
Both Linux and Windows worked in their default graphical environments
after installation.
You may read the results at: Alt Linux KDE vs Windows Ultimate
