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I got two systems in my collection / office ;-) Each time I read Intel press like this I power them up just for the warm feeling :-) https://www.t2-project.org/har... https://www.t2-project.org/har... They are also visible on my desk in some of my recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Transmeta became a Patent Licensing organization, and licensed their tech to AMD and other chip manufacturers during the conversion. So, no - they didn't fail as Intel claims.

I got two systems in my collection / office ;-) Each time I read Intel press like this I power them up just for the warm feeling :-) https://www.t2-project.org/har... https://www.t2-project.org/har... They are also visible on my desk in some of my recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Transmeta became a Patent Licensing organization, and licensed their tech to AMD and other chip manufacturers during the conversion. So, no - they didn't fail as Intel claims.

I got two systems in my collection / office ;-) Each time I read Intel press like this I power them up just for the warm feeling :-) https://www.t2-project.org/har... https://www.t2-project.org/har... They are also visible on my desk in some of my recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

I got two systems in my collection / office ;-) Each time I read Intel press like this I power them up just for the warm feeling :-) https://www.t2-project.org/har... https://www.t2-project.org/har... They are also visible on my desk in some of my recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

Unfortunately Linux suspend / resume is annoying on the Surface's as M$ is not implementing the regular suspend-to-ram state in ACPI. On Windows they only use the connected standby always on state with just as much peripherals suspended as they can. And on Linux I get spurious wake ups in that state from whatever, and even if not the sleep time is not that great :-/ https://t2-project.org/hardwar...

we will not remove 32-bit x86 support from T2SDE:

Also still got some mice 32-bit vintage machines, like Oqo01+ with Transmeta Efficieon, or Nokia Booklet 3G, with 32-bit only Atom Z, ...

In general I find it a bit sad to remove support to use older machines for poor families and third world countries.

T2 SDE - "Best distribution for those with something to prove," and people can later use their learned skills for their embedded projects ;-)

> Provide a stable binary interface, and the manufacturers will provide drivers, at least for common processors.

Are you sure it's all about binary interfaces? Hardware vendors lose control of whatever runs under linux, while a slightly incompatible windows release/service pack every now and then ensures forced obsolescence.

That would change a bit with binary interfaces but not that much.
And it would get in the way of kernel development.

But I could be wrong so somebody could mantain some kernel with a fixed ABI and see what happens. T2 project does have specified targets already IIRC.

Exactly that is what the T2 System Development Environment is for: While building from source it allows to define exactly the subset of features you need and then create ISO, netinstall, flash, Virtual Machine images from the result and then do controlled update build.
Additionally you can then install your exact image on multiple machines with all of them in the same, known-good state as you would do with commercial, pre-built Linux distributions,

Regarding the embedded Linux case where Wind River and Monta Vista want $$$$$ amounts of money, you might be better of with the T2 System Development Environment. It is GPL, costs nothing, is even more flexible and full-feature than the commercial RT Linux flavours and commercial support is available by open source addicted consultants around the globe at normal rates and from ExactCODE if you need a bigger company's backing.

The T2 SDE was an early adapter and helped squashing some bugs in the modualar packages. The current development trunk contains X11R7 RC4 (update expected today) and a LiveCD with X11R7 was already released.

The T2 SDE was an early adapter and helped squashing some bugs in the modualar packages. The current development trunk contains X11R7 RC4 (update expected today) and a LiveCD with X11R7 was already released.

Point is, you can't possibly fit everyone's vision in to "a few great" distros.

Except for T2 maybe? http://www.t2-project.org/index.html

Since aternatives keep up innovation, there is also a KDE 3.4 and such shiny new LiveCD http://www.t2-project.org/live/).

It even comes with D-BUS / HAL integration for auto mounting and equally perfect hardware detection.

As usual with the System Development Environment (SDE) T2, you can automatically rebuild it, optimized for your CPU - or even other architectures.

Since aternatives keep up innovation, there is also a KDE 3.4 and such shiny new LiveCD http://www.t2-project.org/live/).

It even comes with D-BUS / HAL integration for auto mounting and equally perfect hardware detection.

As usual with the System Development Environment (SDE) T2, you can automatically rebuild it, optimized for your CPU - or even other architectures.

Since aternatives keep up innovation, there is also a KDE 3.4 and such shiny new LiveCD http://www.t2-project.org/live/).

It even comes with D-BUS / HAL integration for auto mounting and equally perfect hardware detection.

As usual with the System Development Environment (SDE) T2, you can automatically rebuild it, optimized for your CPU - or even other architectures.

Since aternatives keep up innovation, there is also a KDE 3.4 and such shiny new LiveCD http://www.t2-project.org/live/ from the T2 Project (http://www.t2-project.org/).

It even comes with D-BUS / HAL integration for auto mounting and equally perfect hardware detection.

As usual with the System Development Environment (SDE) T2, you can automatically rebuild it, optimized for your CPU - or even other architectures.

Since aternatives keep up innovation, there is also a KDE 3.4 and such shiny new LiveCD http://www.t2-project.org/live/ from the T2 Project (http://www.t2-project.org/).

It even comes with D-BUS / HAL integration for auto mounting and equally perfect hardware detection.

As usual with the System Development Environment (SDE) T2, you can automatically rebuild it, optimized for your CPU - or even other architectures.

An not yet so well known alternative build system is the T2 Project. It is not yet another distribution, but a flexible build kit that allows the automated build includiign optimization exactly for your target CPU. Unlike Gentoo it features cross buidls (e.g. to target PDAs and new architectures) and target defintions to save the way you want you distribution build together for the next turn.

The package format is way cleaner and consist of a clean key/value pair file instead of the code filled ebuild.

T2 is very mature and mainly targetting the professional embedded and custom server security and high performance clustering departments - however it is used to build normal home desktops just fine.

An alternative source for the latest and greated GNOME could be the T2 Project. It is not yet another distribution, but a flexible build kit that allows the automated build including cross buidls and the optimization exactly for your target CPU.

The latest and greatest GNOME is always included (includkg KDE, XFCE, and the other 1500+ packages) - 2.10.0 was added the day before it was officially announced ,-)

Our next (T2) live-cd will have latex - and you could recompile your own flavour if you need to.

E.g. take a look at the T2 SDE. It allows you to rebuild your CD or Live-CD any time with up-to-date packages including KDE and GNOME. Currently 3.4. and 2.10 are included since the day they have been released (GNOME even days before).

And of course it supports nearly all architectures Linux does support - current: alpha, arm, mips, hppa. ia64. powerpc, powerpc64, sparc, sparc64, superh, x86 and x86-64.