T2/Linux Brings a Flagship KDE Plasma Linux Desktop to RISC-V and ARM64 (t2linux.com)
(Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the architecture-independence dept.)
- Reference: 0180604462
- News link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/0610216/t2linux-brings-a-flagship-kde-plasma-linux-desktop-to-risc-v-and-arm64
- Source link: https://t2linux.com/#news-2026-01-01
After "a decade of deep focus on embedded and server systems," T2 SDE Linux "is back to the Desktop," [1]according to its web site , calling the new "T2 Desktop" flavour "ready for everyday home and office use!"
> Built on the latest KDE Plasma, systemd, and Wayland, the new T2 Desktop flavour delivers a modern, clean, and performant experience while retaining the project's trademark portability and reproducible cross-compilation across architectures.
T2 Desktop targets x86_64, arm64, and riscv64, delivering "a fully polished, streamlined out-of-the-box experience," according to project lead René Rebe (also long-time Slashdot reader [2]ReneR ): I>[T2 Desktop] delivered a full KDE Plasma desktop on RISC-V, reproducibly cross-compiled from source using T2 SDE Linux. The desktop spans more than 600 packages — from toolchain to Qt and KDE and targets a next-generation RVA23 RISC-V flagship desktop, including full multimedia support and AMD RDNA GPU acceleration under Wayland.
As a parallel milestone, the same fully reproducible desktop stack is now also landing on Qualcomm X1 ARM64 platforms, highlighting T2 SDE's architecture-independent approach and positioning both RISC-V and ARM64 as serious, first-class Linux desktop contenders.
[1] https://t2linux.com/#news-2026-01-01
[2] https://www.slashdot.org/~ReneR
> Built on the latest KDE Plasma, systemd, and Wayland, the new T2 Desktop flavour delivers a modern, clean, and performant experience while retaining the project's trademark portability and reproducible cross-compilation across architectures.
T2 Desktop targets x86_64, arm64, and riscv64, delivering "a fully polished, streamlined out-of-the-box experience," according to project lead René Rebe (also long-time Slashdot reader [2]ReneR ): I>[T2 Desktop] delivered a full KDE Plasma desktop on RISC-V, reproducibly cross-compiled from source using T2 SDE Linux. The desktop spans more than 600 packages — from toolchain to Qt and KDE and targets a next-generation RVA23 RISC-V flagship desktop, including full multimedia support and AMD RDNA GPU acceleration under Wayland.
As a parallel milestone, the same fully reproducible desktop stack is now also landing on Qualcomm X1 ARM64 platforms, highlighting T2 SDE's architecture-independent approach and positioning both RISC-V and ARM64 as serious, first-class Linux desktop contenders.
[1] https://t2linux.com/#news-2026-01-01
[2] https://www.slashdot.org/~ReneR