The release of the T2 SDE meta-distribution 24.12 has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compilation, and keeping package versions up to date. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system, Puppy Linux stands out. The project offers 37 bootable ISO images with minimal graphical environments in variants using Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds with graphical environments based on GNOME and Wayland are prepared for current architectures.
The platform focuses on building distributions based on the Linux kernel, but prototypes are separately developed to allow for package building for various operating systems, including macOS, Haiku, and BSD systems. There are plans to support the creation of environments based on other kernels, such as L4, Fuchsia, and RedoxOS, as well as building distributions based on Android (AOSP). Over 5000 packages are available for building.
T2 supports 25 hardware architectures used in both modern embedded systems and outdated equipment. For example, support is provided for gaming consoles like Nintendo Wii U and Sony PS3, as well as workstations from SGI, Sun, and HP. For some architectures, operation in environments with 512 MB of RAM is possible. Ready-made builds have been prepared for the Alpha, Arc, ARM64, Avr32, HPPA64, IA64, Loongarch64, M68k, Microblaze, MIPS64, Nios2, OpenRISC, PowerPC 64, RISC-V 64, s390x, SPARC 64, SuperH, i486, x86-64, and x32 architectures.
Among the changes in the new version:
- Initial support for the Nintendo Wii U gaming console has been added.
- Packages with the Cosmic user environment have been added.
- Patches have been included that, in particular tests, increase the performance of software RAID based on the MD driver by 89%.
- Support for AMD GPU based on the RDNA3 microarchitecture has been added for RISCV-64 systems.
- Changes have been added that enhance stability and performance for SPARC64, Intel Itanium IA-64, and SGI Octane platforms.
- Packages with LibreOffice, OpenJDK, and QEMU have been adapted to work on many secondary architectures.
- 206 packages and new features have been added, 3280 packages have been updated, and 37 packages have been removed. For example, GCC 14.2, uClibC 1.0.49, LLVM 19.1.5, and Linux kernel 6.12.5 have been updated.
- Automatic hostname assignment based on the hardware platform has been ensured.
- The QEMU emulator is included in the base package.
Source: opennet.ru
