Published release of the meta-distribution T2 SDE 10.25, which provides an environment for creating your own distributions, cross-compilation and keeping package versions up to date. Popular distributions built on the T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project provides 36 bootable iso images with a minimal graphical environment in versions with the Musl, uClibc and Glibc libraries. For current architectures, assemblies with graphical environments based on GNOME and Wayland have been prepared.
The platform is focused on creating assemblies based on the Linux kernel, but prototypes are being developed separately that allow building packages for various operating systems, including macOS, Haiku and BSD systems. There are plans to support the creation of environments based on other kernels, for example, based on L4, Fuchsia and RedoxOS, and the formation of assemblies based on Android (AOSP). More than 7,000 packages are available to build.
T2 provides support for 20 hardware architectures, used in both modern embedded systems and legacy hardware. For example, support is provided for Nintendo Wii U and Sony PS3 game consoles, SGI, Sun and HP workstations. Most architectures can boot in environments with 128 MB of RAM. Ready-made assemblies generated for architectures
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 changes in the new version:
- Added i786 assembly with inclusion of optimizations using instructions SSE2.
- Added support for Qualcomm X1-Elite ARM64 SoC.
- The halt command now stops the system and returns control to OpenFirmware. To turn it off, use the poweroff command.
- Added mesa-legacy package with support for older GPUs.
- Fixed problems with Firefox and Thunderbird running on most 32-bit and big-endian RISC systems.
- Ensured work iproute2 vlan in builds with LTO optimizations enabled.
- Added 527 packages or new features, updated 7638 packages, removed 229 packages. Updated Linux kernel 6.16, GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1.8, Glibc 2.42, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.54, Mesa 25.1.9.