This «Freie Software Freies Wissen» Live Stick release is based on Debian 12 „bookworm“ (+ backports and 3rd-party repositories) and contains a variety of free open source software (and a few non-free tools). The images are meant to be copied onto USB pen drives with at least 32 GB of storage.
They contain a special persistence partition layout and need to be written as is to the flash drive. We recommend the software Etcher if you happen to use 🪟 windows or 🍎 apple, block map tool if you are running linux and prefer a command-line alternative. With the latter, you could also directly write to an USB drive from the internet by carefully executing bmaptool copy [Image URL] [Block device] as root.
The sticks currently boot in German by default. If you press e in the boot menu to edit and remove the locales=de_DE.UTF-8 parameter, it will boot in English. You can also change the keyboard-layouts=de parameter to set a different keyboard layout. We'll be adding a way to choose the language on boot-up more easily in the coming weeks.
Generic Schulstick image
Image-File (14.7GiB): FSFW-Schulstick_2794k_Xfce_bookworm-amd64.hybrid.img.gz
SHA256 checksum: e128ca4afd10cf7c44ef327d2c1f68a68df65487f8f181633605ad857a0ee15f
Generic Uni-stick image
This contains 3 gigabytes more software (LaTeX, scientific tools) than the schulstick edition and is configured a bit more towards academic use.
Image-File (17.5GiB): FSFW-Uni-Stick_2794k_Xfce_bookworm-amd64.hybrid.img.gz
SHA256 checksum: bd80e760e0704ac66eac0df148258e9466bed47b26bf7159819bcb4790f1ec22
OSEG Makerstick image
The makerstick contains even more tools specifically aimed at makers (for 3D printing, KiCAD, system monitoring etc.) than the uni-stick edition. It also comes with a dark theme and some special desktop wallpapers to honour our partnership with the Open Source Ecology Germany e.V..
Image-File (19.8GiB): OSEG-Makerstick_2794k_Xfce_bookworm-amd64.hybrid.img.gz
SHA256 checksum: 28fff8e2f0e1902e04f5c7e069aebfcb8c3958c46db8b813a83c3209dd2fb0d8
Changelog
Here's the full log of changes to last year's release: 2405d...2794k