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T2 Linux 24.6 Goes Desktop with Integrated Windows Binary Support (t2sde.org) 35

T2's open development process and the collection of exotic, vintage and retro hardware can be followed live on YouTube and Twitch.

Now Slashdot reader ReneR writes: Embedded T2 Linux is known for its sophisticated cross compile features as well as supporting all CPU architectures, including: Alpha, Arc, ARM(64), Avr32, HPPA(64), IA64, M68k, MIPS(64), Nios2, PowerPC(64)(le), RISCV(64), s390x, SPARC(64), SuperH, x86(64). But now it's going Desktop!

24.6 comes as a major convenience update, with out-of-the-box Windows application compatibility as well as LibreOffice and Thunderbird cross-compiled and in the default base ISO for the most popular CPU architectures.

Continuing to keep Intel IA-64 Itanium alive, a major, up-to-3x performance improvement was found for OpenSSL, doubling crypto performance for many popular algorithms and SSH.

The project's CI unit testing was further expanded to now cover the whole installation in two variants. The graphical desktop defaults were also polished -- and a T2 branded wallpaper was added! ;-)
The release contains 606 changesets, including approximately 750 package updates, 67 issues fixed, 80 packages or features added, 21 removed and 9 other improvements.
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T2 Linux 24.6 Goes Desktop with Integrated Windows Binary Support

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  • Good. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by serviscope_minor ( 664417 ) on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:45PM (#64536213) Journal

    This is good. Nerdy shit for nerds. I'm never going to use it but I'm glad it exists.

    • This peaked my interest.

      However, my system has trouble handling source based distributions (only 8GB of RAM).

      • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

        by Anonymous Coward

        FYI: It piqued your interest.

        • by sodul ( 833177 )

          On the other hand my interest in it -peaked- just before I found out it was a sourced based distribution.

      • by ReneR ( 1057034 )
        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, ...
  • Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)

    by dynamo ( 6127 ) on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:17PM (#64536251) Journal

    I'd like to see out of the box by default Windows App compatibility in some more distros - or at least being able to check an extremely easily findable box to add it in during install, if it's not there by default. I'd much rather run windows apps on linux than on windows, if it works.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      I would much rather not.

      The avalanche of "bug" reports this is going to cause will distract maintainers from actual issue solving.

      Besides, this would also take attention away from the FOSS intended to do the same task of proprietary software which does not support Linux, because all of a sudden people will think their Linux distribution will run their proprietary software - and they will think it will function just as well as in Linux all the time, no matter which application.

      Finally, this takes away incent

    • Windows App compatibility = wine
      You can use one of the Linux distros that came with Wine preinstalled, for the others just use their package management GUI and to easily add it (or simply "apt install wine" / "dnf install wine").

      • by bn-7bc ( 909819 )
        If said app is a .net app you don't even need wine, just pass the app.dll to .net an away you go( unless ofc the developer has made stupid assumptions as in but not limited to using \ as path separator.
    • People don't avoid Linux because they love Windows, they avoid Linux because Windows apps best serve their use cases and they will tolerate Windows to use those apps. They need or want precisely what those often industry standard apps do.

      When Linux can run everything Windows runs, it can compete anywhere Windows is used.

    • by GoRK ( 10018 )

      On debian/ubuntu install the wine-binfmt package.

      I'm sure other distros have something similar.

      As you might imagine, the out of box experience of this kind of thing is fairly rough. A lot of software (especially anything that is NOT a game) under wine requires some amount of tweaks, compatibility switches, specific versions of libraries, etc. Often two separate applications will be conflicted enough they cannot "share" the same simulated windows environment. So while binfmt-misc has made it possible to clic

  • by FudRucker ( 866063 ) on Sunday June 09, 2024 @07:34PM (#64536379)
    because many times in the past i would install & use debian or ubuntu just to run windows apps with wine and some windows apps that were said to run with wine would either not install or install but not run, wine has always been a crapshoot for me, and i been bit and disappointed too many times to trust T2's claims i will keep an eye on this distro and people's reviews in the near future
  • by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Sunday June 09, 2024 @08:58PM (#64536487)

    There is no fate but what we make.

  • by Anonymous Coward
    Why did this article not come with a Sponsored Advertisement warning?
  • Or is the compatibility done some other way?
  • Could T2 be installed on an RPi5 and take advantage of the hardware? I have one here just doing menial LLM "work" using the standard rpi distro, but sadly no extra SD to swap in, so I'm considering the scrapping the current OS to try

    btw, THAT kind of posts is also why I read Slashdot. If I commented on every post I'm not interested in with "how is this newsworthy?" I wouldn't have any time to do anything else.
  • I actually RTFA. "out-of-the-box Windows application compatibility" = it has wine pre-installed. It makes no claims bigger than that. I quote, "ships LibreOffice, Wine and Thunderbird by default [t2sde.org]". It links Wine to https://t2sde.org/packages/win... [t2sde.org] which doesn't describe as anything special apart from it only supporting x86-based and arm-based archs. If you're not a fan of tweaking wine, well, don't think this is anything special having a Linux distro come with wine pre-installed.

  • God damn, it's been years since I've seen the word "crypto" used correctly like it was in the summary.

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