Apertis v2024 released

Apertis is a Collabora-developed
Debian derivative distribution designed to be incorporated into electronic
devices; the v2024
release is now available. It is now based on the Bookworm release, and
includes support for Podman, ONNX
Runtime, OP-TEE, and more.

Apertis relies on the Debian Free Software Guidelines to ensure all
software shipped is open source or, in limited cases, at least
freely distributable. However, for some customers this is not
enough to be able to adopt OSS solutions as in their evaluations
some provisions in common licenses like the GPL-3 are at odds with
regulatory constraints they are subject to. Apertis does not set to
solve this decades-long debate, and instead its goal is to increase
the adoption of modern, maintained OSS solutions in markets where
this has historically been a challenge. To enable this, Apertis
supports avoiding the use of any software under some licenses (like
the [GPL v3.0 license family) on target images, while still making
them fully available for development and for customers that do not
share those licensing concerns. To avoid these licenses, Apertis
uses more modern alternatives instead of relying on outdated and
unmaintained pre-GPL-3 versions. For instance, coreutils and
findutils (GPL-3+) are replaced in Apertis by rust-coreutils and
rust-findutils.