Apertis
Apertis is a FOSS (Free and open source) GNU/Linux-based platform for industrial embedded devices. It is a distribution derived from Debian and geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM and Intel x86 systems.
- Status: active (2026-06-02)
Homepage: https://www.apertis.org/
- Blog:
- Microblog:
Corporate sponsor: Collabora Ltd
- Government sponsor:
- Funding model: funded by sponsors
- Location: completely international
- hardware wishlist:
hardware supported: https://www.apertis.org/reference_hardware/
- user IRC:
- devel IRC:
- Debian IRC:
- user list:
devel list: https://lists.apertis.org/postorius/lists/devel.lists.apertis.org/
- Debian list:
- user forums:
- devel forum:
- Debian forum:
- wiki:
Security contact: security@apertis.org
Debian derivatives census maintainer: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk> (andrewsh on IRC)
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/Apertis
Debian derivatives census output: http://deriv.debian.net/Apertis/
- Debian page:
- Distrowatch page:
- Distribution type: preinstalled
- Debian derivative model: rebuilds subset of Debian source packages and adds/modifies some source packages
- Debian archive quantity: partial archive
- Based on: Debian Trixie (or later stable)
- Interfaces: console, agl-compositor (weston since v2026) in target/development, Xfce in SDK
- Init systems: systemd
- Archive tool: aptly
- Build status:
- Build tools: Open Build Service
Image build: custom setup
Image tool: debos recipes
VCS repository: https://gitlab.apertis.org
Bug tracker: https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-issues
- Bugs forwarded to Debian: recorded in Debian BTS under individual names
- Package tracker:
- Architectures: amd64 armhf arm64
- dpkg vendor: Apertis
- Patches repo:
Docs about Apertis for Debian developers: https://www.apertis.org/guides/apertis_packaging_guide/
- Docs about Debian for Apertis developers:
- Apertis glossary:
- Package comparison:
- Popcon information:
Quality assurance information: https://qa.apertis.org/
- lintian information:
- piuparts information:
- static analysis information:
- list of developers:
- developer blogs:
- developer microblogs:
- derivatives info:
- mirrors file:
- mirror tools:
- changelogs pool:
- apt repositories (source, binary, stablerelease/nextrelease):
# Development release
deb [arch=amd64,armhf,arm64] https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2027dev1 target development hmi
deb-src https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2027dev1 target development hmi
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2027dev1 sdk
deb-src https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2027dev1 sdk
# Stable release
deb [arch=amd64,armhf,arm64] https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2026 target development hmi
deb-src https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2026 target development hmi
deb [arch=amd64,arm64] https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2026 sdk
deb-src https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2026 sdk