Rosneft switches to Russian Astra Linux

On December 6, 2022, it became known about the transition of Rosneft to the Astra Linux operating system. Also, the Russian oil company conducted an experiment to launch its software products on PCs with domestic Baikal processors.

As representatives of Rosneft and its largest research and design institute, a center for the development of a line of high-tech corporate software - RN-BashNIPIneft, told CNews, by December 2022, Russian software accounts for at least 80% of the software products used by Rosneft.

Rosneft switches to Astra Linux

In some areas, for example, hydraulic fracturing modeling, hydrodynamic modeling, well drilling geonationalization, we are completely independent of foreign digital solutions. Ensuring the information security of our software products, now we are actively transferring them to work in the Russian OS. We plan to transfer most of our commercial products to Linux by the end of 2022, - said the interlocutors of the publication.

According to them, the company initially planned to check 5-6 of its software solutions in 2022, but as a result, 11 products are being transferred to Linux by December 2022. Among them is the RN-GRID hydraulic fracturing simulator, which was tested by September 2022. A Linux version of this solution has also been created.

At the same time, part of its specialized Rosneft software on Linux is not going to translate yet, one of the interlocutors told the publication in early December 2022.

We are creating products not in order to simply import substitution, but to ensure the efficiency of Rosneft. Any development is considered through the prism of reducing the cost of software ownership. Until recently, individual solutions when studying open source products turned out to be one and a half times cheaper on Windows, he added.[1]

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