[ANNOUNCE] T2 SDE 7.0-rc3 - "Water Falls"

we are pleased to announce the release candidate T2 SDE 7.0-rc named
"Water Falls".

/T2 SDE probably the first distribution shipping with GCC-4.2 and GlibC-2.6/

The release features the two newly supported CPU architectures AVR32 and
Blackfin as well as the brand new GCC 4.2 and GlibC 2.6.

Additinally the T2 7.0 series comes with over 400 new packages, while most
of the existing packages received an update which manifest as over 4500
ChangeSets in the T2 SVN repository since the branch of the 6.0 series.

The release candiate primarily focuses to bring the GCC-4.2 / GlibC-2.6 binaries
into wider testing for a smooth 7.0 release.

Prebuilt Live ISO images of the desktop target are available for i686, while the
final 7.0 release will also cover x86-64, ppc, ppc64 and sparc64, soon:
 
  http://osiris.tfh-berlin.de/mirror/t2/stable/7.0-rc/
  http://nexus.tfh-berlin.de/t2/binary/stable/7.0-rc/
 
Please note our roadmap and known issue lists at:
  http://www.t2-project.org/releases/7.0.html
 
For more information please check out the full anounncement below.
 
= About T2 =
 
T2 is not a common Linux distribution - it is a flexible Open Source System 
Development Environment, allowing the creation of custom distributions with 
bleeding edge technology.
 
With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded
Linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full 
desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and 
many more. Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common 
architectures: Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, IA64, HPPA/HPPA64, IA64,
MIPS/MIPS64, PowerPC/PowerPC64,  SPARC/SPARC64, SuperH, x86/x86-64 -
theoretically any GCC/Linux supported one.
 
You can find more info about T2 at http://www.t2-project.org/.
 
= T2 7.0 Tree (Branch) Overview =
 
This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some
improvements to the SDE. Most notable are:
 
        * AVR32 CPU support
        * Blackfin CPU support
        * updated GCC 4.2.0
        * updated GlibC 2.6

You can find more info about the 6.0 series at
http://www.t2-project.org/releases/6.0.html
 
= Getting T2 7.0-rc =
 
The source tarball of 7.0-rc release can be found at:
 
  http://dl.exactcode.de/t2/t2-7.0-rc.tar.bz2
 
or via svn:
 
  svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/tags/7.0-rc t2-7.0-rc
 
ISO images where created with this release and can  be found,
as usual at:
 
  http://osiris.tfh-berlin.de/mirror/t2/stable/7.0-rc/
  http://nexus.tfh-berlin.de/t2/binary/stable/7.0-rc/

Important note: we recommend to use 7.0 branch to stay up-to-date with
the latest bug-fix and security updates, you can grab it:
 
  svn co http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/branches/7.0 7.0-branch

Previous 7.0 installation can be updated from this source via the build
system running:

./scripts/Emerge-Pkg -system

= T2 7.0-rc Changes =
 
Generated statistics (6.0.0-> 7.0-rc):

There where 5836 changesets with 7711 lines of commit messages.
Approximately 4140 packages updates, 784 fixed issues, 4140
packages or features added and 256 things removed. Around 103
improvements have been committed.

On behalf of the T2 SDE team,

  René Rebe

-- 
  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
  http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
  +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45

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