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Fermi Linux LTS (Long-Term Support) was a distribution based on Scientific Linux, which was in essence Red Hat Enterprise Linux, recompiled. It was Scientific Linux with Fermilab's security hardening and customised configurations to allow an administrator to install Fermi Linux and have the machine meet Fermilab's security requirements with little or no extra configuration. Since Fermi Linux LTS was based on Scientific Linux, it shares it's goal that if a program runs and was certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, then it will run on the corresponding Fermi Linux LTS release. Fermi Linux has since merged with the Scientific Linux project, becoming a special edition or add-on to Scientific Linux.
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2024-04-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDK 24.5 |
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T2 SDE is an open-source system development environment (or distribution build kit if you are more familiar with that term). T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with bleeding-edge technology. The project's latest release, version 24.5, runs on 25 CPU architectures and includes updates to the Linux kernel, GNOME, and KDE Plasma. "T2 24.5 was released as a major milestone release not only including the latest and greatest Linux kernel, GCC, LLVM / Clang, Glibc, Musl, uClibc, X.org, Mesa3D, but also the KDE and GNOME desktop packages updated and fixed to finally mostly cross compile. While at it, we also undeleted IA-64 Itanium support! A total of 36 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl and uClibc combinations are available for for 25 CPU ISAs: Alpha, Arc, ARM(64), Avr32, HPPA(64), IA64, Loongarch64, M68k, Microblaze, MIPS(64), Nios2, OpenRISC, PowerPC(64), RISCV(64), s390x, SPARC(64), SuperH, i486, i686, x86-64 and x32. On most architectures the release still boots with 512MB of RAM or even less, and are on average just one GB in size. Most vintage Xorg drivers were fixed to actually work again. The rolling release is updated using the scripted source build system and thus optimized for the native system CPU." Additional details can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Source and binary packages can be found on the project's download page. |
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2022-07-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDK 22.6 |
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René Rebe has announced the release of a new version of T2 SDE, an open-source system development environment that allows the creation of custom Linux distributions. It is available for 24 processor architectures, with integrated support for cross compilation. The news post on the project's front page reads: "Today T2 SDE Linux 22.6 was released. A major milestone update to ship full support for 24 CPU architectures, variants, and C libraries. Of course all the architectures, including: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, avr32, hppa, ia64, m68k, mipsel, mips64, nios2, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc64, superh x86, x86-64 and x32 can be rolling release updated thru the rolling release scripted build system from source.can be rolling release upated thru the scripted build system. The 22.6 release received updates across the board, with latest stable Linux kernel 5.17.15, GCC12, LLVM/Clang 14 and the latest of KDE, GNOME and much more. There were 5014 change-sets with 6334 lines of commit messages. Approximately 4947 packages got updates, 331 issues fixed, 4947 packages or features added and 148 removed. Around 49 improvements have been committed." Source and binary builds can be found through the project's download page. The x86_64 binary build is detailed here: t2-22.6-x86-64-minimal-desktop-gcc-glibc.iso (895MB, SHA224, pkglist). |
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2021-07-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 21.7 |
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René Rebe has announced the release of a new version of T2 SDE, an open-source system development environment that allows the creation of custom Linux distributions. It is available for 18 processor architectures, with integrated support for cross compilation. "T2 SDE Linux 21.7 was released today. This is an interim update that ships with full support for the new HiFive SiHive Unmatched 64-bit quad-core RISC-V 64 board, as well as a reference for further refined smart optimizations for 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Of course, all the other architectures, including alpha, arm, arm64, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips64, mipsel, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc64, superh, x86 and x86-64 can be rolling0release upated via the scripted build system. The 21.7 release received updates across the board, with latest Linux kernel 5.13.1, as well as a fix for the GCC 11 C++ templated ctor bug. There were 305 changesets. This is also the first release where our 'Data' AI bot contributed more revisions than human developers - Data 164, humans 141." Visit the project's home page to further information and release announcement. Here is a download link to the minimal desktop installation image for the x86_64 architecture: t2-21.7-x86-64-minimal-desktop-gcc-glibc.iso (804MB, SHA1, pkglist). |
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2021-04-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 21.4 |
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T2 SDE is an open-source system development environment. T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with bleeding-edge technology. The project's latest release, version 21.4, expands T2 SDE to support 15 CPU architectures, including ARM, PowerPC, RISCV, SPARC64, and x86_64. The project has also upgraded development packages and libraries, including the GNU compiler and Rust. Hardware support has been expanded by including version 5.11 of the Linux kernel. "Today the T2 System Development Environment Linux 21.4 was released, with the largest amount of pre- and cross-compiled set of architectures releases ever! A total of 15 architectures: x86-64, x86, arm64, arm, riscv64, riscv, ppc64le, ppc64-32, ppc sparc64, mips64, mipsel, hppa, m68k, alpha and ia64! The 21.4 release received updates across the board, while a major working target was adding new architecture support for RISCV(32), as further improving cross compilation and support for vintage retro system like the Sony PS3 and Sgi Octane, but also DEC Alpha and Intel IA64. Low memory optimizations allow the 32-bit x86 variant to boot on 486 with as little as 48MB of RAM." Information on this release can be found on the project's home page. Download: t2-21.4-x86-64-minimal-desktop-gcc-glibc.iso (722MB, SHA1, pkglist). |
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2020-12-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 20.10 |
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René Rebe has announced the release of T2 SDE 20.10, a new stable version of the project's distribution build kit (originally forked from ROCK Linux) designed for advanced Linux users who wish to build custom Linux distributions. This version arrives after ten years of development: "After a decade of development, we are proud to announce the availability of the new T2 Linux Source and Embedded Linux distribution build kit stable release, version 20.10. The 20.10 release has received updates across the board, while a major working target was adding new architecture support for arm64, and RISCV as well as further improving cross compilation - all official ISO images are now fully cross-built. Over 13,800 Subversion revisions indicate the magnitude of the release, with over 1,000 new packages, new features and various other improvements and fixes, including the latest Linux kernel, GCC, LLVM, Clang, Rust, X.Org, Wayland, Firefox, KDE, GNOME and everything in between." Here is the complete release announcement as published on the project's mailing list. T2 SDE 20.10 is available for download as a set of pre-compiled installation images for mips64, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, x86 and x86_64. Here are the links to the minimal desktop builds for the x86_64 architectures: t2-minimal-desktop-glibc-gcc-x86-64-avx-20.10.iso (793MB, SHA1), t2-minimal-desktop-glibc-gcc-x86-64-haswell-20.10.iso (792MB, SHA1). |
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2010-07-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 8.0 |
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Rene Rebe has announced the release of T2 SDE 8.0, a distribution build kit designed for advanced Linux users who wish to build custom distributions: "After years of development we are proud to announce the availability of the new T2 stable release, version 8.0. This release received updates across the board, while a major working target was to further improve cross compilation, and all official ISO images are now fully cross-built. Over 10,000 Subversion revisions indicate the magnitude of the release, with over 200 new packages, new features and various other improvements and fixes. User visible changes: GCC 4.5.0, glibc 2.11.2, X.Org 7.5, preliminary support for LLVM/clang and MinGW/Win32." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. The new version is available for download as a source tarball; alternatively, a set of pre-compiled CD images for i486, powerpc, powerpc64 and x86_64 is also provided: t2-8.0-minimal-i486.iso (200MB, MD5), t2-8.0-minimal-x86_64.iso (242MB, MD5).
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2007-11-13 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 SDE 7.0 RC2 |
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The T2 project has released T2 SDE 7.0 RC2, a multi-architecture build kit designed to build custom Linux distributions: "The 7.0 series release candidate 2 features bug fixes and stability improvements for the non-x86 architectures, mainly AVR32, PowerPC and SPARC while quite some packages received updates and security fixes. The major features of series 7 are AVR32 and Blackfin architecture support as well as the brand new GCC 4.2 and glibc 2.6. Additionally the T2 7.0 series comes with over 400 new packages, while most of the existing packages received an update. Changes: Atmel AVR32 and Analog Devices Blackfin CPU support; GCC 4.2; glibc 2.6; eGlibC support was added...." The new release is available in the form of build scripts (3.1MB), as well as pre-compiled minimal CD images for several architectures: t2-7.0-rc2-minimal-i486.iso (203MB, MD5), t2-7.0-rc2-minimal-x86_64.iso (269MB, MD5).
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2007-06-02 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 SDE 7.0 RC |
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Rene Rebe has announced the availability of a release candidate for T2 SDE 7.0, a distribution build kit designed for building custom Linux distributions from source code: "We are pleased to announce the release candidate T2 SDE 7.0-rc, named 'Water Falls'. The release features two newly supported CPU architectures (AVR32 and Blackfin), as well as the brand new GCC 4.2 and glibc 2.6. Additionally, the T2 7.0 series comes with over 400 new packages, while most of the existing packages received an update. The release candidate primarily focuses on bringing the GCC 4.2 and glibc 2.6 binaries into wider testing for a smooth 7.0 release." Read more in the release announcement. Besides the usual set of build scripts, the project has also released a pre-built, i686-optimised live CD image for the desktop (with KDE); download it from here: t2-7.0-rc-desktop-i686.iso (760MB, MD5).
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2007-03-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 6.0.3 |
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Rene Rebe has announced an updated release of T2 SDE, a toolkit for building custom Linux distributions: "With the usual care and maintenance a new maintenance release of the popular T2 6.0 series was released today. As stable series, the 6.0 series is maintained under strong API/ABI compatibility aspects and receives bug fixes, security fixes and light, compatible updates only. The release primarily focuses on ironing out all known live CD issues for smooth building of custom T2-based live CD/DVD and USB sticks. Pre-built x86, x86_64, PowerPC and PowerPC64 ISO images of the minimal live CD are available (SPARC64 to follow soon)." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download the source tarball or one of the pre-compiled CD images: t2-...-6.0.3-pentium-mmx_cd1.iso (321MB, MD5), t2-...-6.0.3-x86_64_cd1.iso (369MB, MD5).
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2006-12-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 6.0.2 |
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Rene Rebe has announced the release of T2 6.0.2, a Linux distribution build kit originally forked from ROCK Linux: "We are pleased to announce the maintenance release T2 6.0.2 named 'Continuity'. It also comes with some updated packages, but mostly security updates, bug fixes and some improvements. The release primarily focuses on ironing out all known SPARC64 issues for smooth support on Sun T1 Niagara CPU systems such as the T1000 and T2000 - but also includes non-SPARC security fixes, updates and improvements along the lines." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. The scripts for building a custom distribution are available for download from here, while a pre-built minimal binary distribution for SPARC64 can be downloaded from this server: t2-minimal-6.0.2-sparc64-ultrasparc_cd1.iso (225MB, MD5).
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2006-10-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 6.0.1 |
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René Rebe has announced an updated release of T2 SDE, a source-based distribution build kit originally forked from ROCK Linux: "We are pleased to announce the maintenance release T2 6.0.1 named 'From Zero To One'. This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some improvements to the System Development Environment (SDE). Most notable are: login warning about unsupported keyword in login.defs was fixed; a fix for the build environment where relative file names could potentially be resolved incorrectly; GRUB installation to non-primary hard disk computing a wrong BIOS device number; live CD creation scripts to involve fewer hard coded presets...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Those wishing to build a custom distribution should download the source tarball and follow the project's quick build document. Also available for download are minimal binary CD images for the x86, x86_64, PowerPC and PowerPC64 architectures.
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2006-08-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 6.0.0 |
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Aldas Nabazas has announced the release of T2 6.0.0, a system development environment for building a custom distribution directly from source code: "After a lot of testing, security updates and work on details, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of 6.0.0 final. The release features u/dev, early user-space, fully modular kernel, X11R7, C++ cross compilation, PowerPC64 and MIPS64 support, as well as a whole lot of updates and re-factoring under the hood. The x86 flavour already includes support for latest Apple Macintosh Intel hardware." Find more details in the release announcement. The source code for building T2 6.0.0 is available here, while pre-built ISO images targeted at desktops for PPC, PPC64, SPARC64, x86 and x86_64 architectures can be downloaded from this server.
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2006-06-03 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.2.0 RC |
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René Rebe has announced the first development release of T2 2.2.0, a source-based distribution originally forked from ROCK Linux: "Finally, the release candidate of the 2.2.0 series 'Get the power back!' is out. The series features udev, early user-space, fully modular kernel, X11R7, C++ cross compilation, PowerPC 64 and MIPS 64 support, as well as a whole lot of updates and re-factoring under the hood." Read the full release announcement for a complete list of changes. As usual, the new version is available in the form of build scripts (2.4MB) for creating a complete distribution from source code, or as a set of pre-compiled CD images for several architectures. Here are the quick download links to the x86 images (MD5): t2-desktop-2.2.0-rc-x86-pentium-mmx_cd1.iso (634MB) and t2-desktop-2.2.0-rc-x86-pentium-mmx_cd2.iso (553MB).
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2006-01-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 2.1.1 |
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T2, a source-based distribution originally forked from ROCK Linux, has been updated to version 2.1.1: "The T2 development team is proud to present 'Lychee Punch', the first maintenance release (2.1.1) for the stable 2.1 branch. This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some improvement to the SDE. Most notable are: Kaffe 1.1.6, KDE 3.4.3, XFce 4.2.3.2, WINE 0.9.1, Mono 1.1.10, Eclipse 3.1.1, Xpdf 3.01pl1, KOffice 1.4.2, Samba 3.0.21a, OpenOffice.org 2.0.0.1, MPlayer 1.0pre7try2...." Here is the full release announcement. The tarball with scripts to build a custom distribution from source can downloaded from here: t2-2.1.1.1.tar.bz2, while pre-built binary ISO images targetted at the desktop are available from this directory.
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2005-11-26 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 Live 2.2.0 Delta |
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The T2 project, a distribution build kit originally forked from ROCK Linux, has announced the release of a new version of T2 Live: "We are proud to announce the next revision of the 'state of the art' live CD implementation based upon T2: 2.2.0-delta 'take the power back'. Since the last release, fixes are: hundreds of updates based upon T2 trunk:HEAD; modular X11R7; GCC 4.0, glibc 2.4cvs, Linux 2.6.14; NPTL instead of Linux Threads. A lot more hardware configurations got added to the 'officially supported / tested' list on the home page and there are now companies using T2 Live as a base for their commercial products." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download T2 Live 2.2.0 delta from here: t2-live-2.2.0-delta.iso (655MB).
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2005-11-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 2.1.0 |
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The first stable version of T2, a Linux distribution build tool kit originally forked from ROCK Linux, has been released: "After a year of very hard work, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of our first stable release of T2. T2 2.1 is our first stable branch, forked out of ROCK Linux 2.0 one year ago. It has lots in common with that release, like ROCK Net, ROCK Plug, .gem file format, devfs, monolithic kernel and x11, but far more robust and improved to fulfill our goal of making a clean and stable framework for spin-off projects and customized distributions." See the release announcement for a more detailed description of the project. The tarball with scripts to build a complete distribution is available from here: t2-2.1.0.tar.bz2 (1.67MB), while pre-built binary ISO images, built as a desktop target, can be downloaded from this location (MD5): t2-desktop-2.1.0-p4_cd1.iso (637MB) and t2-desktop-2.1.0-p4_cd2.iso (462MB).
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2005-09-17 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 RC3 |
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T2 is a source-based Linux distribution, originally forked from ROCK Linux. A new release candidate of the upcoming T2 2.1.0 has been released: "We are happy to announce the release of our third candidate for T2 Stable (2.1.0-rc3 aka The Toasted Badger). This release includes general bug fixes and minor (but important) updates; the most notable are: OpenOffice.org 1.9-m123; Mono 1.1.8.3; bdb 4.3.28; KDE 3.4.2; GNOME 2.10.2. The tarball of this release can be found here: t2-2.1.0-rc3.tar.bz2. ISO images of T2-minimal and T2-desktop created with this release can be found here, currently optimized for Pentium MMX and Pentium 4. ISO images for Athlon XP will be added in the next days." Find more details and changelog in the release announcement. Quick links to the two binary ISO images for Pentium 4 processors: (MD5): t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc3-p4_cd1.iso (653MB) and t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc3-p4_cd2.iso (442MB).
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2005-08-10 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 RC2 |
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The second release candidate of T2 2.1.0 has been released for download and testing: "We are happy to announce the release of our second (and last?) candidate for T2 stable (2.1.0-rc2 aka 'Carmenere'). This release includes major bugfix and many harmless updates where most notable are: Linux kernel 2.6.11.12; glibc 2.3.5; OpenOffice.org 1.9-m104; XFce 4.2.2; KDE 3.4.1; GNOME 2.10.1. The tarball of this release can be found here. ISO images of T2-minimal and T2-desktop created with this release can be found in this directory, currently optimized for pentium-mmx, pentium4 and soon for athlon-mp and athlon-xp." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Quick links to the desktop ISO images for Pentium 4 processors (MD5): t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc2-p4_cd1.iso (652MB) and t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc2-p4_cd2.iso (442MB).
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2005-06-21 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 RC1 |
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T2 is a source-based Linux distribution originally forked from ROCK Linux. Its inaugural stable release is expected next week: "The T2 Project today announced the immediate availability of the major bug-fix, security, feature enhancement and API/ABI freeze release T2 2.1.0-rc1 'Summer sunshine'. The T2 project tagged the -rc1 intermediate release to prepare for the final 2.1.0 next week. AMD64 and SPARC64 support has been greatly improved. The latest stable releases of KDE, GNOME, XFce and Enlightenment 17 are included." Read the rest of the release announcement, which includes a complete changelog. Besides the source release, a set of desktop-oriented binary ISO images is also available for download (MD5): t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc1-p4_cd1.iso (652MB) and t2-desktop-2.1.0-rc1-p4_cd2.iso (409MB).
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2005-05-22 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 Live 2.2.0 Beta |
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After a series of alpha releases, the T2 project, originally forked from ROCK Linux, has announced the first beta release of T2 Live 2.2.0: "We are proud to announce the next revision of the upcoming 'state of the art' live CD implementation based upon T2. Since the last release, fixes are: fixed HAL integration to full work (e.g. for hotplug USB / Firewire discs, CDROMs, cameras) in all situations I can test locally; use of udevsend as hotplug multiplexer; updated hotplug++. A lot more hardware configurations got added to the 'officially supported / tested list on the homepage. The implementation is done as normal 'target' within the T2 version 2.2 framework." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: t2-live-2.2.0-beta.iso (542MB).
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2005-04-14 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 Beta 4 |
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The fourth beta release of T2, a source-based Linux distribution as well as a community driven fork from the ROCK Linux Project, is now available: "The T2 Project today announced the immediate availability of the major bugfix, security and feature enhancement release T2 2.1.0-beta4 "warm rain". The most notable change is the support of the SuperH CPU family with the first lines of code to support the Sega Dreamcast in the near future. AMD64 / x86-64 support was also greatly improved." Read more in the project's changelog. The source code for building a T2-based distribution is available here: t2-2.1.0-beta4.tar.bz2 (2.1MB).
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2005-02-19 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 Beta 3 |
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The third beta release of T2, a source-based Linux distribution recently forked from ROCK Linux, is now available: "The T2 Project today announced the immediate availability of the major bug-fix, security and feature enhancement release T2 2.1.0-beta3 'serpentine'. Changes: added uclibc support (builds with far more packages than dietlibc); added parallel build support for make and scons; added x86-64 support; fixed ccache support to work reliably; improved sparc64 support; bash3 was fixed significantly; various boot disk creation and layout improvements; added wide ncurses; added NVIDIA binary driver support; Linux 2.6.10 and Linux 2.4.29...." More details in the release announcement. The source code for building a T2-based distribution can be downloaded from here: t2-2.1.0-beta3.tar.bz2 (1.63MB). Pre-built binary ISO images for Pentium-class and PowerPC computers are also available.
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2004-12-27 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 Beta 2 |
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The second beta release of T2, a recently created community fork of ROCK Linux, has been released: "The T2 project tagged and released the internal milestone 2.1.0-beta2 ('Your own sweet way'). The release includes more ROCK to T2 naming transitions, including the rename of the internally used toolchain directory from ROCK to TOOLCHAIN, fixes for Findutils, and enhanced X.org Radeon support (especially on PowerPC). The command wrapper code got a significant restructuring so that ccache works more reliable now, as well as general ccache fixes and basic distcc support. We now support marking download URLs as 'no mirror'. And the many updates include GTK+ 2.6.0 as well as FreeType 2.1.7." Read the release announcement as published on the distribution's home page. The source tarball for building T2 is available from here: t2-2.1.0-beta2.tar.bz2 (1.6MB).
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2004-12-17 |
NEW • Development Release: T2 2.1.0 Beta |
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T2 is a new Linux distribution (or a "distribution build kit" to be more precise) recently forked from ROCK Linux. Its main purpose is to serve as a clean framework for spin-off projects and customised distributions. The project has released a first beta build, version 2.1.0: "The T2 Project today announced the immediate availability of the milestone release T2 2.1.0-beta 'Today is gonna be the day'. The release includes updates to Gnome 2.8.2, KDE 3.3.2, as well as updates in the toolchain and many other packages. Furthermore, we like to announce that Alejandro Mery was elected as stable release maintainer for the 2.1-stable series." Here is the full announcement, as published on the project's mailing list. Custom distributions can easily built with T2 by downloading the build scripts and by following these instructions.
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