T2 Linux 24.5 Released

'A major T2 Linux milestone has been released, shipping with full support for 25 CPU architectures and several C libraries, as well as restored support for Intel IA-64 Itanium. Additionally, many vintage X.org DDX drivers were fixed and tested to work again, as well as complete support for the latest KDE 6 and GNOME 46. T2 is known for its sophisticated cross compile support and support for nearly all existing CPU architectures: Alpha, Arc, ARM(64), Avr32, HPPA(64), IA64, M68k, MIPS(64), Nios2, PowerPC(64)(le), RISCV(64), s390x, SPARC(64), and SuperH x86(64). T2 is an increasingly popular choice for embedded systems and virtualization. It also still supports the Sony PS3, Sgi, Sun and HP workstations, as well as the latest ARM64 and RISCV64 architectures. The release contains a total of 5,140 changesets, including approximately 5,314 package updates, 564 issues fixed, 317 packages or features added and 163 removed, and around 53 improvements. Usually most packages are up-to-date, including Linux 6.8, GCC 13, LLVM/Clang 18, as well as the latest version of X.org, Mesa, Firefox, Rust, KDE 6 and GNOME 46! More information, source and binary distribution are open source and free at T2 SDE.' -- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/29/2325210/ To be honest, haven't heard of that distro before, but sounds interesting. Cheers, Peter

To be honest, haven't heard of that distro before ...
Neither had I. But I can’t help remembering, if you watch to the end of the “Terminator 2” movie, they claim a trademark on the character sequence “T2”.
The website (https://t2sde.org/) styles it as "T/2", so it might be different enough... Cheers, Peter

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:37:38 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
... haven't heard of that distro before ...
Looking at the About page <https://t2sde.org/about.html> and others on that site, the idea seems to be you build a “target” installation from source. A “target” specifies a collection of packages and an architecture to build them for. And then the result is a bootable installer for your custom system setup. I thought that addition/removal/update of anything required building everything again (unlike, say, Gentoo), but according to the FAQ <https://t2sde.org/faq/>, the differences are a bit more subtle than that.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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Peter Reutemann