The release of the meta-distribution T2 SDE 25.10 has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compilation, and maintaining package versions up to date. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system, Puppy Linux stands out. The project offers 36 bootable ISO images with minimal graphical environments, available with Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds with graphical environments based on GNOME and Wayland have been prepared for current architectures.
The platform focuses on creating builds based on the Linux kernel, but separately develops prototypes that allow for package creation 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, as well as forming builds based on Android (AOSP). Over 7000 packages are available for building.
T2 supports 20 hardware architectures used in both modern embedded systems and outdated hardware. For example, support is provided for gaming consoles like the Nintendo Wii U and Sony PS3, as well as workstations from SGI, Sun, and HP. For most architectures, loading in environments with 128 MB of RAM is possible. Ready-made builds have been prepared for the 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 architectures.
Onder de wijzigingen in de nieuwe versie:
- An i786 build has been added with optimizations utilizing SSE2 instructions.
- Support for Qualcomm X1-Elite ARM64 SoC has been added.
- The halt command now stops the system and returns control to OpenFirmware. The poweroff command should be used to shut down.
- The mesa-legacy package has been added with support for older GPUs.
- Issues with Firefox and Thunderbird on most 32-bit and big-endian RISC systems have been resolved.
- Iproute2 VLAN functionality has been ensured in builds with LTO optimizations enabled.
- 527 packages or new features have been added, 7638 packages have been updated, and 229 packages have been removed. The Linux kernel 6.16, GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1.8, Glibc 2.42, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.54, and Mesa 25.1.9 have been updated.
Bron: opennet.ru
