The T2 SDE 26.3 meta-distribution has been released, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up-to-date. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy. LinuxThe project provides 10 ready-to-use bootable ISO images with a KDE-based graphical environment, compiled for the arm64, ia64, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, riscv64 rva23, i686, and x86-64 architectures.
The platform is focused on creating kernel-based builds. Linux, but prototypes are being developed separately that allow for the compilation of packages for various operating systems, including macOS, Haiku, and BSD systems. Plans include support for creating environments based on other kernels, such as L4, Fuchsia, and RedoxOS, and generating builds based on Android (AOSP). Over 7000 packages are available for building.
T2 supports 20 hardware architectures used in both modern embedded systems and legacy hardware. For example, it supports Nintendo Wii U and Sony PS3 game consoles, as well as SGI, Sun, and HP workstations. Most architectures can boot in environments with 128 MB of RAM. Supported architectures include Alpha, Arc, ARM64, HPPA64, IA64, Loongarch64, M68k, Microblaze, MIPS64, Nios2, OpenRISC, PowerPC 64, RISC-V 64, s390x, SPARC 64, SuperH, i486, i686, i786, x86-64, and x32.
Among the changes in the new version:
- Fully reproducible builds of the KDE Plasma desktop environment using Wayland have been created. Cross-compilation support has been provided for most Qt6 and KDE components. KDE builds are available not only for x86-64 and ARM64 architectures, but also for i686, IA-64, PowerPC64+le, UltraSPARC64, and RISCV64+RVA23 systems. Support for installing other desktop environments, including GNOME and Cosmic, is optional.
- Added packages with a modified version of the X server that restores support for the XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) 2D acceleration architecture. XAA support restores 2D acceleration to systems with very old video cards (ATi Mach-64, ATi Rage-128, SiS, Trident, Cirrus, Matrox Millennium/G450, Permedia2, Tseng ET6000, and Sun Creator/Elite 3D), which had to use software rendering because the DDX drivers for these video cards do not support current acceleration architectures.
- Over 7300 packages have been updated, including GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 22.1, and the kernel. Linux 6.19.5, Mesa 26.0.1, Glibc 2.43, Musl 1.2.5 and uClibC 1.0.56.
- By default, the system manager systemd is used.
- Added the ability to boot into live mode for testing operation and graphical installation.
- Support for parallelizing package assembly has been implemented.
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