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Submission + - T2/Linux 25.4 ported AMD ROCm for AI to RISC-V and ARM64 (t2sde.org)

Submitted by ReneR on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:38AM

ReneR writes: T2 Linux SDE 25.4 has landed with a huge milestone: AMD’s ROCm stack now runs on RISC-V and ARM64, enabling open AI/HPC workloads on truly open hardware—thanks to DeepComputing and ExactCODE collab. The release also introduces a one-command web installer for reusing existing Linux systems or bootstrapping containers, along with 4,500+ package updates, Linux 6.14, GCC 14.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1, and OpenCL on by default.

In true T2 fashion, legacy gets love too with undeleted Orinoco/AirPort Wi-Fi drivers and ReiserFS v3 is back from the grave, and yes, it still runs on Itanium IA-64, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, and other vintage platforms. T2 remains a highly portable, low-code SDE for building custom Linux systems with full cross-compilation and support for almost every CPU architecture and libc.

Comment But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 42

by ReneR on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @06:16PM (#65211233) Attached to: Apple Unveils iPad Air With M3 Chip

Oh, nevermind. I reed a real computer, ... to be productive.

Comment Re:And once again.... (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:55AM (#65034373) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

Well, T2/Linux mainly started as an all CPUs supporting System Development Environment mostly for embedded systems and firmware. It is basically like Buildroot or Linux From Scratch fully automated and on steroids. Common users include Access Points, Firewalls, Telephone or LTE switches, NAS, virtualization, or having fun on vintage and retro game consoles and of course prosumers on their home servers and workstations. The benefit is that T2 is not a fixed distributions like most of the others, but you can tweak it to your liking, and build it reproducible with low-code highly portable packages, Thus also increasingly getting into macOS and BSD home-brew ;-)

Comment Re:Actual QA platforms? (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:52AM (#65034369) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

All are tested on real hardware ;-) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FDB... regularly on my YT and Twitch channel https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fmorerenere... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitch.tv%2Ft2sde

Comment Re: "little" (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:22AM (#65034209) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

Yes, but three decades of bloat blew up every binary on the way an order of magnitude or two. From the libc, to the shell, not to mention udev or god forbid systemd or needed some extra ram for a tons of optional maybe needed drivers in a initrd. I booted T2 on an just 8MB RAM i386dx40 some years ago though just for run: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Comment Re:"little" (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:19AM (#65034207) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

Well, technically it is more like 96MB or even 64MB when you use the more minimal mini initrd. My SPARCstation 2 also boots T2 SPARC Linux w/ as little as 32MB but then it starts to use some 3MB of swap when booted to the login prompt. I put 512MB into the press release as I did not wanted to raise too many eyebrowns. One certainly could squeeze this further down, but mostly it is not really needed. Compiling a custom kernel w/o initrd reduces this quite a bit down to below 32MB though.

Comment Re:T2 System Development Environment, not T2 Linux (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:16AM (#65034199) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

I thought real trans 3 T2/Linux ;-)

Comment Re:T2 System Development Environment, not T2 Linux (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:15AM (#65034197) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

No, the people who do patches for T2 Apple hardware ignored that T2 SDE did T2/Linux since ~2003-ish and just clobbered over our work by registering t2linux.org which we did not thought to reserve, creating this mess. We have https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft2linux.com%2F though and Apple T2 chip was never too amazing, longed after and pretty obsolete.

Submission + - T2 Linux SDE 24.12 "Sky's the Limit!" Released with 37 ISOs for 25 CPU ISAs (t2sde.org)

Submitted by ReneR on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:29AM

ReneR writes: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed "Sky’s the Limit!", delivering a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution. The release includes 37 pre-compiled ISOs with Glibc, Musl, and uClibc, supporting 25 CPU architectures like ARM(64), RISCV(64), Loongarch64, SPARC(64), and vintage retro computing platforms such as M68k, Alpha, and even initial Nintendo Wii U support added.
The Cosmic Desktop, a modern Rust-based environment, debuts alongside expanded application support for non-mainstream RISC architectures, now featuring LibreOffice, OpenJDK, and QEMU. With 3280 package updates, 206 new features, and the ability to boot on systems with as little as 512MB RAM, this release further strengthens T2 Linux’s position as the ultimate tool for developers working across diverse hardware and embedded systems.
More details and downloads are available on the official https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft2linux.com%2F site.

Comment Re:The rumour is this is RUST related (Score 1, Insightful) 99

by ReneR on Sunday September 15, 2024 @06:15PM (#64789331) Attached to: Linux Developer Swatted and Handcuffed During Live Video Stream

I find this rumor a bad joke that should not even be mentioned. As outspoken critic of Russias war on Ukraine and the far right those are far more likely, but maybe it is just a mentally ill twitch clown looser user.

Comment Pretty lame when even T2/Linux pays more (Score 1) 120

by ReneR on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:03PM (#64652348) Attached to: CrowdStrike Offers a $10 Apology Gift Card To Say Sorry For Outage

As little as the smallest feature bounty of the non-profit OpenSource T2/Linux project. Pretty lame when even an underfunded hobby project pays their users more https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frxrbln%2Ft2sd... \_()_/

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 35

by ReneR on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:11AM (#64536875) Attached to: T2 Linux 24.6 Goes Desktop with Integrated Windows Binary Support

I run T2 on as little as 256MB PS3 ;-) My Sgi O2 and Octane also only have 786MB of RAM and my G4 Cube only 1.5GB, ...

Comment Re:How is this newsworthy? (Score 5, Insightful) 35

by ReneR on Sunday June 09, 2024 @06:23PM (#64536257) Attached to: T2 Linux 24.6 Goes Desktop with Integrated Windows Binary Support

So for 20 years we did no PR and just code. Now that we do a little PR like everyone else it is not newsworthy? Although it is the Linux distribution with the most cpu architecture and hw support? T2 is also not Gentoo based, ... but with its ROCK Linux linage one of the original Linux distributions from the 90s.

Submission + - Embedded T2 Linux 24.6 goes Desktop w/ integrated Windows binary support (t2sde.org)

Submitted by ReneR on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:43AM

ReneR writes: Embedded T/2 Linux known for its sophisticated cross compile features as well as supporting all CPU architectures, incl: Alpha, Arc, ARM(64), Avr32, HPPA(64), IA64, M68k, MIPS(64), Nios2, PowerPC(64)(le), RISCV(64), s390x, SPARC(64), SuperH, x86(64) goes Desktop!

24.6 comes as a major connivence update, with out-of-the-box Windows application compatibility as well as LibreOffice and Thunderbird cross-compiled and in the default base ISO for the most popular CPU architectures.

Continuing to keep Intel IA-64 Itanium alive. a major, an up to 3x performance improvement was found for OpenSSL, doubling crypto performance for many popular algorithms and SSH.

The projects CI unit testing was further expanded to now cover the whole installation in two variants. The graphical desktop defaults were also polished as well as a T2 branded wallpaper added ;-)

Submission + - T2 Linux 24.5 released w/ IA-64 Itanium support restored! (t2sde.org)

Submitted by ReneR on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:55AM

ReneR writes: A major T2 Linux milestone release shipping with full support for 25 CPU architectures, and several C libraries as well as support for Intel IA-64 Itanium was restored and is still supported. Additionally many vintage X.org DDX drivers were fixed and tested to work again as well as complete support for latest KDE 6 and GNOME 46.

T2 is known for its sophisticated cross compile support as well as supporting 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), SuperH x86(64) T2 is an increasingly popular choice for Embedded systems, virtualization and still supporting the Sony PS3, Sgi, Sun and HP workstations as well as latest ARM64, RISCV64.

The release contains a total of 5140 changesets, including approximatal 5314 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: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft2sde.org%2Freleases%2F24....

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