Editing ALT Linux (section)

== History ==
ALT Linux Team arose from the merger of IPLabs Linux Team and the Linux community of the Institute of Logic, Cognitive Science and Development of Personality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/02/25/interview-with-alexey-rusakov-project-manager-alt-linux/ |title=Interview With Alexey Rusakov – Project Manager – Alt Linux |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417073311/http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/02/25/interview-with-alexey-rusakov-project-manager-alt-linux/ |archive-date=2009-04-17}}</ref> The latter cooperated with [[Mandrake Linux]] and [[SUSE Linux]] teams to improve localization (specifically [[Cyrillic script]]), producing a Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition (RE).

Mandrake and Mandrake RE became 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.cnews.ru/2007/#6 |title=CNews Awards 2007 |access-date=11 August 2008 |archive-date=15 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515180323/http://awards.cnews.ru/2007/#6 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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