https://apfelhammer.de/tags/t2linux/ Recent content in T2linux on Apfel hammer Hugo en-en Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-263-desktop-edition/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-263-desktop-edition/ <h2 id="embedded-engineering-meets-cross-architecture-desktop-ambition">Embedded Engineering Meets Cross-Architecture Desktop Ambition</h2> <p>T2/Linux has released version 26.3 &ldquo;Desktop Edition,&rdquo; marking a significant milestone in delivering a modern, cross-architecture desktop experience.</p> <p>The distribution distinguishes itself by providing a fully reproducible KDE Plasma Wayland session across nine different CPU architectures, including x86, ARM64, PowerPC, and RISC-V. This achievement is built on T2&rsquo;s long-standing foundation as a system development environment engineered for strict cross-compilation, architectural correctness, and deterministic builds.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-compiling-errors/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-compiling-errors/ <p>Hello and good morning, I&rsquo;m back at my Powermac G5, playing around a bit with <a href="https://apfelhammer.de/tag_t2linux.html">T2/Linux</a> (all articles).</p> <p>I <a href="https://apfelhammer.de/t2linux-2510-never-obsolte-is-there.html">recently reported</a> that a current version of <strong>Firefox</strong> <em>is capable</em> of running on PPC64, making this distro the only one that allows this. Everyone else is having major problems with Firefox right now. Although I assume René, the maintainer of T2, is sending his patches upstream. He does a lot for the community.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/hello-t2linux-2504---i-switched-back-to-1224/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/hello-t2linux-2504---i-switched-back-to-1224/ <p><strong>Man</strong>, I am a little bit frustrated right now. Everytime a new release of <a href="https://apfelhammer.de/release-t2-linux-254-it-only-does-everything.html">T2/Linux</a> is going online, I am really happy to try it out on my <em>Powermac G5</em>. I download it and <!-- raw HTML omitted -->dd<!-- raw HTML omitted --> it to a USB Stick (<a href="https://apfelhammer.de/how-to-boot-powermac-from-usb.html">here</a> I explain how to boot a PPC Mac from USB) and than boot the Powermac via OpenFirmware from that USB Stick and everything works like charme. Like I exspect it.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/new-release-of-t2linux/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/new-release-of-t2linux/ <p><img src="images/t2_xfce.jpg" alt="T2/Linux 24.12 with XFCE Desktop on Powermac G5"> <!-- raw HTML omitted -->T2/Linux 24.12 with XFCE Desktop on Powermac G5<!-- raw HTML omitted --></p> <p>As you know, this weblog is about my 2005 <a href="https://apfelhammer.de/tag_powermacg5.html">Powermac G5</a> and how to use it in 2024 soon 2025 as a normal computing device. I installed different Linux Distros on an 1 TB NVMe Device while computing with 12 GB-Ram.</p> <p>And today reached me the information that famous <em>René Rebe</em> did released <strong>T2/Linux 12.2024</strong> [1]. They are pleased to announce T2 24.12 as a major update with a total of 37 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl and uClibc combinations are available for 25 CPU ISAs:</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/release-t2-linux-254-it-only-does-everything/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/release-t2-linux-254-it-only-does-everything/ <p>A lot of crazy things happen right now. A few minutes ago <a href="https://apfelhammer.de/update-to-fienix-linux.html">I reported about the living sign of Fienix</a> Linux after the APT Repo down and now I see there is a <a href="https://t2sde.org/#news-2025-04-14">new version of latest and greatest T2 Linux</a> (ver. 25.4) from Rene Rebe.</p> <blockquote> <p>With a total of 17 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl and uClibc combinations are available for 12 CPU ISAs: Alpha, ARM(64), HPPA64, IA64, MIPS64, PowerPC(64), RISCV64, SPARC64, i586, x86-64. On most architectures the release still boots with as little as 512MB of RAM or even less, and ISO downloads are less than 2GB for base Wayland desktop with Firefox.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/status-of-firefox-on-ppc64-big-endian/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/status-of-firefox-on-ppc64-big-endian/ <p>So yesterday was the release ouf <strong>24.12 T2/Linux</strong> and the maintainer, creator and mastermind behind, René Rebe, were at a lifestream on youtube and twitch. So I played around with T2 on my Powermac G5 and listened to the stream and had a small chat with him. The most important part is an actual browser on that machine so I asked for the actual status of firefox.</p> <p>René replied that the problems with big endian still exist and occours so there is no Firefox for Big Endian Machines at the moment. Firefox builts well on all little endian processors, but not on the big ones. There is no better answer at this time, but I hope he can do something when he have the time. Because to make that clear: there is not a big audience who is working on big endian ppc64 processors like my 970MP is in the world and I believe he get&rsquo;s not enough feedback and attention for his work for the open source community. But this is another part.</p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2-linux-is-fucking-amazing/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2-linux-is-fucking-amazing/ <p>So yesterday I found out that with the PPC64 Version Firefox is working and this is a dealbreaker, a gamechanger. Because of a modern Browser, you can use this old computer nearly productive. I can webmail (even Googlemail), I can spotify, I can Youtube. I can do a lot of modern things only because the browser is working.</p> <p><a href="https://apfelhammer.de/images/terminal.png"><img src="https://apfelhammer.de/images/terminal_sml.png" alt=""></a> <!-- raw HTML omitted -->My Powermac G5 Desktop with XFCE 4 and some Terminal Windows.<!-- raw HTML omitted --></p> https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-2510-never-obsolte-is-there/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://apfelhammer.de/posts/t2linux-2510-never-obsolte-is-there/ <p>Master-Hacker <em>René Rebe</em> has published his newest version of <strong>T2/Linux</strong>, an SDE Linux with the most CPU Architechture support in the world. It is also the most active and most actual Linux Distro as you can see on distro watch and other sites.</p> <p>I installed this new version on my <a href="https://janmontag.de/t2-sde-in-neuer-version">Powermac G5</a> Workstation and it works like charme.</p> <p>Here you can find the direct download for <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-603.iso">ppc</a>, <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc64-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-power4.iso">ppc64</a> or <a href="https://dl.t2sde.org/binary/2025/t2-25.10-ppc6432-base-wayland-glibc-gcc-970.iso">ppc64/32</a>*</p> <p>I installed the 64/32 Bit Variante, because it is optimized for the 970 Processor which works in the Powermac G5.</p>