Comment as long as it still comes with a headphone jack (Score 1) 107
so I can listen to records without buying a new headphone, ...
Submission + - T2/Linux 25.10 "Never Obsolete " keeps RISC systems alive (t2linux.com)
ReneR writes: The most portable now also the most up-to-date, cross-architecture Linux distribution. The T2 System Development Environment project version 25.10 delivers over 7,600 package updates and expanded platform support — running on everything from modern Qualcomm X1-Elite ARM64 SoCs to classic DEC Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC64, SGI MIPS64 O2/Octane, and Intel Itanium (IA-64) systems.
T2 continues to maintain full 32-bit and big-endian support, restores Apple AirPort Wi-Fi for PowerPC laptops, and still builds for the Sony PlayStation 3.
Featuring GCC 15.2, LLVM 20.1.8, Linux 6.16.10, and Mesa 25.1.9, T2 now officially the most up-to-date Linux distributions worldwide, as independently tracked by Repology.org.
T2 continues to maintain full 32-bit and big-endian support, restores Apple AirPort Wi-Fi for PowerPC laptops, and still builds for the Sony PlayStation 3.
Featuring GCC 15.2, LLVM 20.1.8, Linux 6.16.10, and Mesa 25.1.9, T2 now officially the most up-to-date Linux distributions worldwide, as independently tracked by Repology.org.
Comment Guess Linux distros like T2 (Score 1) 40
will just continue to build and maintain it any other MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC arch, ... https://t2linux.com/
Submission + - T2/Linux 25.4 ported AMD ROCm for AI to RISC-V and ARM64 (t2sde.org)
ReneR writes: T2 Linux SDE 25.4 has landed with a huge milestone: AMD’s ROCm stack now runs on RISC-V and ARM64, enabling open AI/HPC workloads on truly open hardware—thanks to DeepComputing and ExactCODE collab. The release also introduces a one-command web installer for reusing existing Linux systems or bootstrapping containers, along with 4,500+ package updates, Linux 6.14, GCC 14.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1, and OpenCL on by default.
In true T2 fashion, legacy gets love too with undeleted Orinoco/AirPort Wi-Fi drivers and ReiserFS v3 is back from the grave, and yes, it still runs on Itanium IA-64, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, and other vintage platforms. T2 remains a highly portable, low-code SDE for building custom Linux systems with full cross-compilation and support for almost every CPU architecture and libc.
In true T2 fashion, legacy gets love too with undeleted Orinoco/AirPort Wi-Fi drivers and ReiserFS v3 is back from the grave, and yes, it still runs on Itanium IA-64, DEC Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, and other vintage platforms. T2 remains a highly portable, low-code SDE for building custom Linux systems with full cross-compilation and support for almost every CPU architecture and libc.
Comment But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 42
Oh, nevermind. I reed a real computer, ... to be productive.
Comment Re:And once again.... (Score 1) 26
Well, T2/Linux mainly started as an all CPUs supporting System Development Environment mostly for embedded systems and firmware. It is basically like Buildroot or Linux From Scratch fully automated and on steroids. Common users include Access Points, Firewalls, Telephone or LTE switches, NAS, virtualization, or having fun on vintage and retro game consoles and of course prosumers on their home servers and workstations. The benefit is that T2 is not a fixed distributions like most of the others, but you can tweak it to your liking, and build it reproducible with low-code highly portable packages, Thus also increasingly getting into macOS and BSD home-brew ;-)
Comment Re:Actual QA platforms? (Score 1) 26
All are tested on real hardware ;-) https://www.instagram.com/p/DB... regularly on my YT and Twitch channel https://youtube.com/morerenere... https://twitch.tv/t2sde
Comment Re: "little" (Score 1) 26
Yes, but three decades of bloat blew up every binary on the way an order of magnitude or two. From the libc, to the shell, not to mention udev or god forbid systemd or needed some extra ram for a tons of optional maybe needed drivers in a initrd. I booted T2 on an just 8MB RAM i386dx40 some years ago though just for run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:"little" (Score 1) 26
Well, technically it is more like 96MB or even 64MB when you use the more minimal mini initrd. My SPARCstation 2 also boots T2 SPARC Linux w/ as little as 32MB but then it starts to use some 3MB of swap when booted to the login prompt. I put 512MB into the press release as I did not wanted to raise too many eyebrowns. One certainly could squeeze this further down, but mostly it is not really needed. Compiling a custom kernel w/o initrd reduces this quite a bit down to below 32MB though.
Comment Re:T2 System Development Environment, not T2 Linux (Score 1) 26
I thought real trans 3 T2/Linux ;-)
Comment Re:T2 System Development Environment, not T2 Linux (Score 1) 26
No, the people who do patches for T2 Apple hardware ignored that T2 SDE did T2/Linux since ~2003-ish and just clobbered over our work by registering t2linux.org which we did not thought to reserve, creating this mess. We have https://t2linux.com/ though and Apple T2 chip was never too amazing, longed after and pretty obsolete.
Submission + - T2 Linux SDE 24.12 "Sky's the Limit!" Released with 37 ISOs for 25 CPU ISAs (t2sde.org)
ReneR writes: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed "Sky’s the Limit!", delivering a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution. The release includes 37 pre-compiled ISOs with Glibc, Musl, and uClibc, supporting 25 CPU architectures like ARM(64), RISCV(64), Loongarch64, SPARC(64), and vintage retro computing platforms such as M68k, Alpha, and even initial Nintendo Wii U support added.
The Cosmic Desktop, a modern Rust-based environment, debuts alongside expanded application support for non-mainstream RISC architectures, now featuring LibreOffice, OpenJDK, and QEMU. With 3280 package updates, 206 new features, and the ability to boot on systems with as little as 512MB RAM, this release further strengthens T2 Linux’s position as the ultimate tool for developers working across diverse hardware and embedded systems.
More details and downloads are available on the official https://t2linux.com/ site.
The Cosmic Desktop, a modern Rust-based environment, debuts alongside expanded application support for non-mainstream RISC architectures, now featuring LibreOffice, OpenJDK, and QEMU. With 3280 package updates, 206 new features, and the ability to boot on systems with as little as 512MB RAM, this release further strengthens T2 Linux’s position as the ultimate tool for developers working across diverse hardware and embedded systems.
More details and downloads are available on the official https://t2linux.com/ site.
Comment Re:The rumour is this is RUST related (Score 1, Insightful) 99
I find this rumor a bad joke that should not even be mentioned. As outspoken critic of Russias war on Ukraine and the far right those are far more likely, but maybe it is just a mentally ill twitch clown looser user.
Comment Pretty lame when even T2/Linux pays more (Score 1) 120
As little as the smallest feature bounty of the non-profit OpenSource T2/Linux project. Pretty lame when even an underfunded hobby project pays their users more https://github.com/rxrbln/t2sd... \_()_/
Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 35
I run T2 on as little as 256MB PS3 ;-) My Sgi O2 and Octane also only have 786MB of RAM and my G4 Cube only 1.5GB, ...
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