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NimbleX
NimbleX was a Slackware-based live CD which was able to boot from a CD, USB storage device or from another computer on the Local Area Network. Its main features are small size, a varied selection of software packages, and good hardware support.
Status: Discontinued
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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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About T2
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T2 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. Currently, the Linux kernel is normally used, but the project is expanding to Hurd, OpenDarwin and OpenBSD. T2 started as a community driven fork from the ROCK Linux Project with the aim to create a decentralised development and a clean framework for spin-off projects and customised distributions.
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2022-07-14 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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2007-06-02 |
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 |
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 |
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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