The Debian team has announced the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie". The official release of Debian 13 is expected in July 2025 with the new "Ceratopsian" theme.
What's new in the Debian 13 "Trixie" Installer Alpha 1
1. New default theme:
The "Ceratopsian" theme, designed by Elise Couper, is the default theme for Debian 13. This theme is inspired by Trixie, the fictional character from Toy Story, and is influenced by a previous Debian theme called "futurePrototype".
The Debian Desktop Team selected "Ceratopsian" through a public poll where it received the highest ranking among six choices.
Here's the default wallpaper for Debian 13 Trixie:
You can find the Trixie theme and other images from the link below:
2. Improved user setup:
The user setup screens have been redesigned for a better user experience.
3. Enhanced partitioning functionality:
The installer features significant improvements to its partitioning capabilities, including better heuristics for automatic partitioning, recipes for small disks, and bug fixes.
4. Hardware support changes:
The installer will no longer be built for the armel and i386 architectures, although they remain in the archive for now. The mipsel architecture was removed from the archive last year. Support for the riscv64 architecture has been added.
5. Localization:
The installer supports 78 languages, with 18 fully translated.
Download Debian 13 "Trixie" Installer Alpha 1
The Debian Installer team encourages users to test the alpha release and provide feedback to help identify bugs and improve the installer.
Installation images and other necessary files are available on the Debian website.
Known issues
The announcement acknowledges difficulties in building images for source packages due to large package sizes. Check the errata to know the list of known problems in the Trixie Alpha 1 release of the Debian Installer.
