What’s new in Apertis v2026, the distro and infrastructure for the embedded devices

Speaker: Walter Lozano

Track: Embedded Applications

Type: Short talk (20 minutes)

Room: Aula Magna - FADU

Time: Jul 24 (Fri): 11:00

Duration: 0:20

Apertis is a collaborative OS platform that includes an operating system, but also tools and cloud services to optimize development and increase reliability. Targeting industrial embedded devices, Apertis is used, for instance, in the Atari VCS game console and in the Bosch D-tect 200 wall scanner.

This talk is a follow up from the the one from Debconf25 which will provide an overview of the differences between Apertis and Debian, covering everything from infrastructure to available packages and testing in real hardware.

We’ll also discuss about the rebase on top of Debian Trixie which led to the latest Apertis v2026 release.

Finally, we’ll highlight how our work in Apertis contributes back to Debian, in line with its “Upstream First” policy - a full circle moment that some packages now available in Debian exist thanks to the work done in Apertis!