14 DAY TRIAL // Stefan Lippers-Hollmann had the pleasure of announcing today, May 5, the immediate availability for download of the aptosid 2013-01 Debian-based Linux operating system.
Dubbed Hesperides and powered by Linux kernel 3.9, aptosid 2013-01 is based on Debian Sid’s software repositories as of 5 May, 2013.
“Now that "wheezy" is about to be released, the version freeze that reached up to sid will be lifted again within the next few days.”
“Given that there are a number of high impact changes staging in experimental and are just waiting for the freeze to be lifted, the following 2-3 weeks might be slightly more vibrant and potentially less coordinated than usual in regard to package updates from Debian, therefore we recommend a little caution during dist-upgrades,” the official release announcement read.
Highlights of aptosid 2013-01:
• Linux kernel 3.9; • Based on Debian Sid (2013-05-05); • Xorg Server 1.12.4; • KDE 4.8.4; • KMS support has been enabled for Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Matrox, and drm-cirrus based graphics chipsets; • DRI (3D) support for AMD Radeon chipsets; • Iceweasel 10.0.12 ESR; • Brand-new, SVG-based theme; • Offline manual (available in English and German); • Support for QXL graphics emulation (SPICE); • Client support for network booting over NBD/PXE; • Access Point support for many mac80211 based wlan cards; • Added generic live media support for GRUB2, by implementing loopback.cfg generation; • Added safety fallback for bootloader and generic EFI binary detection, to the live media; • OpenFWWF 5.2 open source firmware support for four Broadcom AirForce 802.11b/g wireless cards; • Support for many Atheros, RaLink, RealTek and Broadcom wlan cards.
aptosid 2013-01 is distributed as Live CD/DVD ISO images with the KDE and Xfce desktop environment, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
Download aptosid 2013-01 right now from Softpedia.