T2 SDE 8.0 ‘Phoenix’ Released After Six Years of Development

T2 SDE 8.0 “Phoenix” has been released after more than six years in development. The Linux distribution aimed at developers wanting to create their own custom distributions. Some of the highlights in the latest release, T2 8.0, are GCC 4.5 and X.Org 7.5. However, most of its 3,200 packages have been updated since the previous release.

“After years of development we are proud to announce the availability of the new T2 stable release 8.0.The 8.0 release received updates across the board, while a major working target was further improving cross compilation, and all official ISO images are now fully cross build! Over 10000 Subversion revisions indicate the magnitude of the release, with over 200 new packages, new features and various other improvements and fixes,” the release announcement on the project’s homepage read.

Highlights of T2 SDE 8.0:

For users:
· GCC 4.5.0;
· GlibC 2.11.2;
· X.Org 7.5;
· Early support for LLVM/clang;
· Early support to target MinGW / Win32;
· More than 200 new packages - 3221 now available;
· Most packages were updated to newer versions;
· Over 10.000 SVN revisions since the 7.0 release.

For developers:
· Package overlaying by architecture and target was greatly improved;
· Classic installer images can now be fully cross-compiled.

About T2 SDE

T2 SDE 8.0 provides developers with great flexibility in creating their own purpose-built distributions for everything from embedded systems to desktop environments. It’s generally used to build Linux-based distributions, but there is some support for other platforms such as Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku and OpenBSD, with others planned.

T2 SDE 8.0 “Phoenix” is available for download here on Softpedia.