Collabora introduced Linux-display apertis 2025.0, originally created to equip automobile systems, but then reoriented for a wider range of electronic devices, built-in equipment, and industrial equipment. Examples of devices on which Apertis are mentioned are mentioned by the game console Atari VCS, Raspberry Pi 4, automobile SOC R-Car, and scanner for detecting objects in the walls Bosch D-Tect 200.
The reference system images are distributed for architecture x86_64, ARM64, and ARMHF. The distribution is modular and allows manufacturers of devices to independently form the necessary filling of the systemic environment. Each Apertis escort time is 1 year and 9 months, every three months a corrective release is formed with error correction.
Packages from Debian GNU/Linux 12 were used as the basis for building a distribution. At the same time, the system filling is significantly processed taking into account the risks that can occur among equipment manufacturers using some free licenses, such as GPLV3 prohibiting tivoization, i.e. Binding of software to equipment, for example, through allowing loading only firmware certified by the digital signature of the manufacturer.
Apertis allows you to form assemblies that do not include the code under the licenses of the GPLV3 family. Instead of using obsolete versions of the GNU utilities formed before the GPLV3 license, more modern alternatives are involved in the Apertis under permissive licenses. The core package is based on a fresh Linux linen LTS vehicle. All packages, images, utilities, and settings are developing in public git repositories, in which 5905 packets are available.
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