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T2 SDE

Developer	René Rebe
OS family	Linux (Unix-like)
Working state	Current
Source model	Open source
Latest release	24.12 / December 19, 2024; 15 days ago (2024-12-19)
Repository	svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/
Platforms	alpha, arm, arm64, ia64, hppa, loongarch64 Microblaze, MIPS64, mipsel, m68k, OpenRISC, RISC-V (32 and 64 bit), ppc64le, ppc64-32, sparc64, x86, and x86-64
License	GNU General Public License
Official website	t2sde.org

The T2 SDE (System Development Environment) is an open source Linux distribution kit. It is primarily developed by René Rebe.

History

ROCK Linux was started in the summer of 1996 by Claire Wolf. T2 SDE was forked in 2004, when developers were dissatisfied with the project. ROCK Linux was discontinued in 2010.

In August 2006, version 6.0 was released with ISO images for AMD64, i386, PPC64 and SPARC64. In July 2010, version 8.0 (codenamed "Phoenix") was released. In April 2021, version 21.4 was released. In July 2022, version 22.6 was released. In April 2024, version 24.5 was released. In June 2024, version 24.6 was released shipping Wine for Windows application compatibility as well as LibreOffice and Thunderbird for a complete Linux Desktop experience. In July 2024, version 24.8 was released shipping OpenJDK for Java™ compatibility as well as a multi-architectural MIPS64 Linux kernel built for Sgi IP27, IP30, IP32(r5k & r10k) as the first Linux OS release to boot on multiple Sgi RISC workstations and servers. In December 2024, version 24.12 was released with initial support for running on Nintendo Wii U, improved SPARC64 and IA-64 stability, an improved global t2 package manager frontend and various other improvements.

Usage

Puppy Linux has used T2 SDE for compiling their packages. AskoziaPBX has used a fork of T2 SDE because it had support for Blackfin. Archivista made a document management system based on T2 SDE.

Hardware support

T2 SDE supports the x86-64, x86, arm64, arm, RISC-V (32 and 64 bit), ppc64le, ppc64-32, sparc64, MIPS64, mipsel, hppa, m68k, alpha, and ia64 architectures. The PowerPC platform is well supported. There are ISO images available, or users can build it themselves.

T2 SDE has been shown to run on the Nintendo Wii. It also supports the SGI Octane and the PlayStation 3.

See also

• OpenEmbedded
• Gentoo Linux
• Linux From Scratch
• Yocto Project

References

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External links

• Official website
• Distrowatch
• YouTube channel
• Original official website of ROCK Linux

• Light-weight Linux distributions
• Embedded Linux distributions
• Linux distributions