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Submission + - T2/Linux restored XAA in Xorg, making 2D graphics fast again. (t2linux.com)

Submitted by ReneR on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:36AM

ReneR writes: T2 Linux has restored XAA in Xorg, bringing fixed-function hardware 2D acceleration back to many older graphics cards that upstream left in software-rendered mode.
Older fixed-function GPUs now regain smooth window movement, low CPU usage, and proper 24-bit bpp framebuffer support: also restored in T2. Tested hardware includes ATi Mach-64 and Rage-128, SiS, Trident, Cirrus, Matrox (Millennium/G450), Permedia2, Tseng ET6000 and even the Sun Creator/Elite 3D. The result: vintage and retro systems and classic high-end Unix workstations that are fast and responsive again.

Comment Re:What is T2 (Score 2) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:08PM (#65933194) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

I find T2 much easier to use than OpenEmbedded, much nicer, low-code and more pkg recipes. T2 also supports package updates, source based build updates, and soon will shipping weekly delta compressed AAA desktop updates. It simply does all, from lightweight embedded, server, desktop, all CPU architectures and even OherOS home-brew (building pkgs on macOS, BSD, GNU/Hurd ... that parts needs more polishing though).

Comment Re:Exactly. (Score 1) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:05PM (#65933186) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

T2 supports and has must based builds. Patches welcome! https://t2linux.com/download

Comment Re:I feel like T2 needs an introduction (Score 1) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:01AM (#65932876) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

Not just "one" other. One of the first dozens original Linux distro since ~1996-ish started as ROCK Linux. And the last Linux distribution that only does everything TM (all cpu ISAs, desktop, server, embedded, init systems ;-)

Comment Re:So, it's Gentoo (Score 1) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:07AM (#65932578) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

Kinda, just doing this since 1996 or when exactly our ROCK Linux heritage was created, supporting all CPU architectures (Alpha, Itanium, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.), being more up-to-date, less code, nicer, cleaner pkg meta data, cross compiling and professional embedded target supporting. Soooo, no; it's not Gentoo.

Comment Re:What is T2 (Score 1) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:04AM (#65932574) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

Doing this since 1998, most other distros are just forks of others, nothing as cutting edge and all CPU architectures supporting and cross compiling as T2 with it's ROCK Linux heritage.

Comment Re:SystemD and Wayland, and they're proud of that? (Score 2) 25

by ReneR on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:03AM (#65932570) Attached to: T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64

We still support other inits, and are still shipping sysvinit by default. We only ship systemd in the modern desktop variant so all modern desktop features just work.

Submission + - T2/Linux brings a flagship KDE Plasma Linux desktop to RISC-V (t2linux.com)

Submitted by ReneR on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:37AM

ReneR writes: T2/Linux's René Rebe has delivered a full KDE Plasma desktop on RISC-V, reproducibly cross-compiled from source using T2 SDE Linux. The desktop spans more than 600 packages—from toolchain to Qt and KDE and targets a next-generation RVA23 RISC-V flagship desktop, including full multimedia support and AMD RDNA GPU acceleration under Wayland. As a parallel milestone, the same fully reproducible desktop stack is now also landing on Qualcomm X1 ARM64 platforms, highlighting T2 SDE’s architecture-independent approach and positioning both RISC-V and ARM64 as serious, first-class Linux desktop contenders.

Comment & how long does it take for patches to get mer (Score 1) 36

by ReneR on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:53AM (#65917368) Attached to: How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?

started to upstream a patch on average a day, but man has that an overhead, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment as long as it still comes with a headphone jack (Score 1) 107

by ReneR on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:06AM (#65711980) Attached to: Your Next Phone Might Come Without a USB Cable

so I can listen to records without buying a new headphone, ...

Submission + - T2/Linux 25.10 "Never Obsolete " keeps RISC systems alive (t2linux.com)

Submitted by ReneR on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @08:04AM

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.

Comment Guess Linux distros like T2 (Score 1) 40

by ReneR on Saturday September 06, 2025 @03:30AM (#65642872) Attached to: Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year

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)

Submitted by ReneR on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:38AM

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.

Comment But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 42

by ReneR on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @05:16PM (#65211233) Attached to: Apple Unveils iPad Air With M3 Chip

Oh, nevermind. I reed a real computer, ... to be productive.

Comment Re:And once again.... (Score 1) 26

by ReneR on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:55AM (#65034373) Attached to: T2 Linux SDE 24.12 'Sky's the Limit!' Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs

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 ;-)

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