The T2 Project is pleased to announce the final release of the T2 SDE 8.0 series named "Phoenix".
The T2 SDE probably the first distribution shipping fully cross compiled installer media for general purpose CPU architectures. The T2 8.0 series comes with over 10000 source code changes, including many new features, over 200 new packages, and various other improvements and fixes, while most of the existing packages received an update. The release primarily focused on cross compilation, cross compilation, and cross compilation. All official ISO images are now completely cross compiled! Prebuilt minimal system installer ISO images are available for i386, x86-64, ppc, ppc64 - sparc64 will follow at a later date. http://www.t2-project.org/download/ Please note our roadmap and known issue lists at: http://www.t2-project.org/releases/8.0.html For more information please check out the full anounncement below. = About T2 = T2 is not a common Linux distribution - it is a flexible Open Source System Development Environment, allowing the creation of custom distributions with bleeding edge technology. With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded Linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and many more. Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common architectures: Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, IA64, HPPA/HPPA64, IA64, MIPS/MIPS64, PowerPC/PowerPC64, SPARC/SPARC64, SuperH, x86/x86-64 - theoretically any GCC/Linux supported one. You can find more info about T2 at: http://www.t2-project.org/ = T2 7.0 Tree (Branch) Overview = This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some improvements to the SDE. Most notable are: • GCC 4.5(.0) • GlibC 2.11(.2) • X.Org 7.5 • preliminary (basic) support for LLVM/clang • preliminary (basic) support to target MinGW / Win32 You can find more info about the 8.0 series at http://www.t2-project.org/releases/8.0.html = Getting T2 8.0 = The source tarball of 8.0 release can be found at: http://dl.t2-project.org/source/t2-8.0.tar.bz2 or via svn: svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/tags/8.0 t2-8.0 ISO images where created with this release and can be found, as usual at: http://www.t2-project.org/download/ Important note: we recommend to use 8.0 branch to stay up-to-date with the latest bug-fix and security updates, you can grab it: svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/branches/8.0 8.0-branch Previous T2 installation can be updated from this source via the build system running: ./scripts/Emerge-Pkg -system On behalf of the T2 SDE team, René Rebe -- René Rebe, ExactCODE GmbH, Jaegerstr. 67, DE-10117 Berlin http://exactcode.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
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