T2 SDE 26.6 Distribution Build Platform Released

Publishes release of the meta-distribution T2 SDE 26.6, offering a platform for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and maintaining package versions up-to-date. Notable distributions built on T2 system include Puppy Linux. The project provides 10 pre-built bootable iso images with a KDE-based graphical interface for arm64, ia64, ppc64, ppc64le, riscv64, riscv64 rva23, i686, and x86-64 architectures.

The focus of the platform is on creating builds based on the Linux kernel, while exploring prototypes to generate packages for macOS, Haiku, and BSD systems. Future plans include extending support for building environments on different kernels such as L4, Fuchsia, and RedoxOS, as well as generating assemblies on Android (AOSP). Over 7,000 packages are available for building purposes.

T2 extends support to 20 hardware architectures, catering to modern embedded systems and legacy hardware. Supported architectures include Nintendo Wii U, Sony PS3 game consoles, SGI, Sun, and HP workstations. Most architectures can boot in environments with 128 MB of RAM. The range encompasses 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.

Notable changes in the latest version include:

  • Complete assemblies with KDE Plasma desktop, compiled using Clang compiler and musl C library.
  • Assembly additions with KDE Plasma for RISC, Alpha, IA-64, SPARC, and HPPA architectures.
  • Discovery application manager within KDE now supports Flatpak packages.
  • Support for reproducible rebuilding of KDE Plasma environments for Wayland, and glibc or musl.
  • Option to
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