Images

Apertis has a release lifecycle which is roughly three months long. Each release consists of a round of development, testing and bug fixing, followed by a stable release. Apertis also has a daily set of images which can be used for the latest testing.

You can find:

• stable release images
• daily build images

Apertis is actively developed, so you should always develop against either the latest release or the daily build images.

There are five types of images available, depending on the platform:

• minimal: headless systems
• target: systems with graphical stack and basic HMI
• basesdk: full desktop environment to develop for Apertis, meant to be run under VirtualBox
• sdk: full desktop environment to develop for Apertis with extra tools to write Canterbury and Mildenhall apps, meant to be run under VirtualBox

The supported platform are (see Reference Hardware):

• amd64: Intel 64bit (using UEFI)
• armhf: ARM 32bit (using u-boot)
• arm64: ARM 64bit (using u-boot)

The licensing documentation describes the licensing expectations for the packages provided in each Apertis image type.