177034177
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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.
175700575
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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.
174043607
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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 ;-)
173678436
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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....
171995697
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ReneR writes:
German T2 Linux Distribution developer René Rebe (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft2sde.org) discovered random illegal instruction speculation on AMD Ryzen 7000-Series and Epyc Zen 4 CPU. Merged today to Linux 6.6 Git is a fix for the bug now known at AMD as Erratum 1485. The discovery was possible thru continued high CPU load cross compiling the T2 Linux distribution with support for all cpu architectures from ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RISCV to x86 (and more) for 33 build variants. Sustained high cpu load and various instruction sequences being compiled, pseudo random illegal instruction errors were observed and subsequently analyzed. ExactCODE Research GmbH CTO René Rebe is thrilled that working with AMD engineers lead to a timely mitigation to increase system stability of the still new and highest performance Zen4 platform.
164306546
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ReneR writes:
The T2 project released major milestone update shipping full support for 25 CPU architectures, variants, and C libraries. Support for cross compiling was further improved to also cover Rust, Ada, ObjC, Fortran, and Go! This is also the first major release where an AI powered package update bot named “data” contributed more changes than human contributors combined!
T2 is known for its sophisticated cross compile support as well as supporting nearly all existing CPU architectures: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, avr32, hppa, ia64, m68k, mipsel, mips64, nios2, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, spare, sparc64, superh x86, x86-64 and x32 for a wide use in Embedded systems. The project also still supports the Sony PS3, Sgi Octane and Sun workstations as well as state of the art ARM64, RISCV64 as well as AMD64 for regular cloud, server, or simply enthusiast workstation use.
