The release of the T2 SDE 24.5 meta-distribution has taken place, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up to date. Distributions can be created based on Linux, Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku, and OpenBSD. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system is Puppy Linux. The project provides basic bootable ISO images with a minimal graphical environment in versions with Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. More than 5000 packages are available for building.
The release includes support for 25 hardware architectures: Alpha, Arc, ARM(64), Avr32, HPPA(64), IA64, Loongarch64, M68k, Microblaze, MIPS(64), Nios2, OpenRISC, PowerPC(64), RISCV(64), s390x, SPARC(64), SuperH, i486, i686, x86-64, and x32, for which 36 ISO images have been created (for some architectures, multiple build options are supported using Glibc, Musl, or uClibc). For most architectures, the ability to boot in environments with 512 MB of RAM has been retained.
Among the changes in the new version:
- Support for the IA-64 Itanium architecture has been restored.
- Issues with DDX drivers for X.org that interfered with the use of KDE 6 and GNOME 46 have been resolved.
- The kernel has been updated to Linux 6.8, GCC 13, LLVM / Clang 18, GlibC 2.39, Musl 1.2.5, uClibc 1.0.47, X.org Server 21.1.12, Mesa3D, KDE 6, and GNOME 46.1.
- Improved support for cross-compiling Rust, ADA, ObjC, Fortran, and Go.
- Multimedia support is enabled by default. server Pipewire.
- Swap partition compression has been added using zram.
- The installer has been improved, including when installing to LVM and RAID partitions.
- Additional drivers for USB and Ethernet have been added to initrd.
- Support for AMD Geode LX, Transmeta Crusoe, and VIA C3 processors has been added in builds for i686 systems.
- More than 200 new packages have been added.
- The base package now includes the GLX library libglvnd (OpenGL Vendor-Neutral Driver), which serves as a software dispatcher that redirects commands from 3D applications to a particular implementation of OpenGL, allowing Mesa and NVIDIA drivers to coexist.
Source: opennet.ru
