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Aureon 0.1 · Halo

A quiet, keyboard‑first Linux.

Debian 13 underneath. Hyprland on Wayland on top. One word, renew, keeps the whole system current.

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  • Debian 13 trixie
  • Hyprland · Wayland
  • amd64 + arm64
  • Signed apt repo
The Aureon desktop: the violet bar across the top, fastfetch showing the Aureon mark in one tiled terminal and an empty terminal beside it.

One word

Everything stays current.

renew syncs, upgrades, prunes and cleans in one go. Aureon's own tools, themes and defaults ship as signed Debian packages, so they update with everything else, and your personal settings stay where you put them. 

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› renew

Inside

Everything you need, nothing that nags.

Hyprland on Wayland

Tiling that animates, rounded corners, blur and a floating glass bar. Same keys as a classic i3 setup.

Updates you can trust

A signed apt repository for Aureon's packages, Debian's own for the rest. renew handles both.

Encrypted install

A calm text installer: pick a disk, optionally encrypt it with LUKS2, set a user. UEFI and legacy BIOS.

A browser that behaves

Firefox with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader bundled and working offline, first-run clutter turned off.

Your models, your keys

AnythingLLM is one command away: reon install anythingllm. Paste your own API keys or point it at a local Ollama. No account, no telemetry.

A server image too

The same base without a GUI: SSH, tmux, neovim, the guest agents and a serial console for headless boxes.

Sharp on any screen

aureon-scale sets 100–250% in one step: bar, launcher, terminal and apps all follow.

Light on its feet

zram swap, a zstd-compressed image, no background services you did not ask for. Fast on old hardware and VMs.

Tour

Have a look around.

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Aureon 0.1 Halo

Every image is a live system that can install itself.

Write an image to a USB stick with dd, balenaEtcher or Rufus (DD mode), or attach it to a VM. Turn Secure Boot off for now. Check a download with sha256sum -c and the .sha256 file next to it.

Install

Four steps, about ten minutes.

  1. Write the image

    On a Mac, find the stick with diskutil list, then:

    sudo dd if=aureon-linux-0.1.0-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/rdiskN bs=4m

  2. Boot it

    Pick the stick in your firmware's boot menu. The live desktop signs in as aureon / aureon.

  3. Install to disk

    Open the launcher with Super D and choose Install Aureon, or run:

    sudo aureon-install

  4. Keep it current

    Whenever you like:

    renew

Already on Debian 13?

Add Aureon to what you have.

One package brings Aureon's signing key and apt source, so there is no sources file to write by hand. Then install the server set, or the whole desktop.

Signing key 


        

      

      
      

        

          

            

              
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