Current situation:
The aptosid manual is available in 14 languages and all except 4 languages have a translation rate above 95%. This is a fabulous effort by the translation team!

We now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final aptosid 2011-03 "Πόνος" release, shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈590 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈590 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (cz, da, es, fr, it, ja, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, uk through liveapt) ≈2.0 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈495 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈490 MB.

aptosid is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid/main, enriched and stabilised with aptosid's own packages and scripts and adhere's to the Debian Social Contract (DFSG).

Just in time for the holidays, we've added two new t-shirts and a bunch of fun new hardware to the Aptosid Art Shop!

When aptosid is released, a new set of iso files hit the mirrors making available the latest entry point to the rolling aptosid cycle. The first step is to boot up the system shipped in those iso files and there are numerous ways to do this. I am going to run through the main options with a brief explanation of why and how you might want to use each method. Much of this is covered in the aptosid manual. Some information is new though and not yet covered there while other sections are a more unusual and may never be covered there.

Now that kernel 2.6.39 and KDE 4.6 have entered the archive and stabilised in sid after the "squeeze" release, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final aptosid 2011-02 "Ἡμέρα" release, shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈560 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈555 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (cz, da, el, es, fr, it, ja, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈2.0 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈475 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈470 MB.

aptosid is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid/main, enriched and stabilised with aptosid's own packages and scripts and adhere's to the Debian Social Contract (DFSG).

As of last night, this site (including forums, wiki, the aptosid.com/debian repository and our archive) runs on a new server, thanks to our new sponsor Webtropia (part of myLoc managed IT AG), who provides 3 dedicated new servers to us (4x quad-core AMD Opteron 1352). We welcome our new sponsor and are looking forward to a lasting and successful co-operation with this fine hosting business. Why the change? ...

Now that kernel 2.6.37 has entered the archive and Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" is in the process of being released, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final aptosid 2011-01 "Γῆρας" release, shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈535 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈530 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (cz, el, es, fr, it, ja, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈1.9 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈435 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈430 MB.

aptosid is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with aptosid's own packages and scripts.

Now that kernel 2.6.36.2 has entered the archive with many KMS related bugfixes, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final aptosid 2010-03 "Ἀπάτη" release, shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈595 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈590 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (el, es, fr, it, ja, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈2.0 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈500 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈490 MB.

aptosid is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with aptosid's own packages and scripts.

We are very pleased to announce the availability to donate to aptosid through SPI and ffis e.V., where we have been granted membership as an associated project. SPI, which is based in the USA, holds Debian’s trademarks, domains and handles it's donations and money transactions. ffis e.V. works closely with SPI from Germany to help with its European operations. To donate please click this link Donate!

Now that aptosid has opened its gates, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the aptosid 2010-02 "Κῆρες" release. Aptosid is created by the same team of volunteers developing software under the Debian Free Software Guidelines and continues what has been started in November 2006 under the name "sidux". This release is shipping in the following flavours:

• KDE-lite, amd64, en/ de, ≈600 MB.
• KDE-lite, i686, en/ de, ≈595 MB.
• KDE-full, amd64+i686, en/ de (el, es, fr, hr, it, ja, nl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru through liveapt) ≈2.2 GB.
• XFCE, amd64, en/ de, ≈490 MB.
• XFCE, i686, en/ de, ≈480 MB.

aptosid is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hardware and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with aptosid' own packages and scripts.

A bug has been found in the installer, which accidentally removes /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptosid.list if adding non-free Firmwares gets selected. Not selecting this option avoids this bug and allows adapting /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list afterwards, in order to install firmware or other non-free packages.