T2 SDE

"ROCK Linux" redirects here. Not to be confused with Rocky Linux.
T2 SDE
DeveloperRené Rebe
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Latest release24.8 / July 30, 2024; 3 months ago (2024-07-30)
Repositorysvn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/
Platformsalpha, arm, arm64, ia64, hppa, loongarch64 Microblaze, MIPS64, mipsel, m68k, OpenRISC, RISC-V (32 and 64 bit), ppc64le, ppc64-32, sparc64, x86, and x86-64
LicenseGNU General Public License
Official websitet2sde.org

The T2 SDE (System Development Environment) is an open source Linux distribution kit. It is primarily developed by René Rebe.[1][2]

History

ROCK Linux was started in the summer of 1996 by Claire Wolf.[3] T2 SDE was forked in 2004, when developers were dissatisfied with the project.[4] ROCK Linux was discontinued in 2010.[5]

In August 2006, version 6.0 was released with ISO images for AMD64, i386, PPC64 and SPARC64.[6] In July 2010, version 8.0 (codenamed "Phoenix") was released.[7] In April 2021, version 21.4 was released.[8] In July 2022, version 22.6 was released.[9] 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.

Usage

Puppy Linux has used T2 SDE for compiling their packages.[10] AskoziaPBX has used a fork of T2 SDE because it had support for Blackfin.[11] Archivista made a document management system based on T2 SDE.[12]

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.[8] The PowerPC platform is well supported. There are ISO images available, or users can build it themselves.[13]

T2 SDE has been shown to run on the Nintendo Wii.[14] It also supports the SGI Octane[15] and the PlayStation 3.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Systementwicklung mit T2". LinuxUser (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  2. ^ "T2 SDE 8.0: a universal distribution build kit". LWN.net. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  3. ^ "LinuxDevCenter.com: The ROCK Linux Philosophy". O'Reilly Media. 2006-12-05. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  4. ^ Ihlenfeld, Jens. "T2: Optimale Linux-Distribution im Eigenbau". Golem.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  5. ^ "ROCK Linux". rocklinux.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  6. ^ "T2 SDE 6.0.0 Released". OSNews. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  7. ^ "T2 System Development Environment 8.0 arrives - The H Open: News and Features". H-online. Archived from the original on 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  8. ^ a b Larabel, Michael. "T2 SDE 21.4 Released With This Linux Distribution Supporting 15 CPU Architectures". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  9. ^ "T2 SDK 22.6 Released". Distrowatch. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
  10. ^ Frye, Selena (October 25, 2011). "Who doesn't want a new Puppy? New releases from Puppy Linux". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  11. ^ "M0n0wall is dood, leve de m0n0wall-forks!". Linux Magazine. 2017-05-18. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  12. ^ Bantle, Ulrich. "Archivista Box with Open Source OCR » Linux Magazine". Linux Magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  13. ^ Vervloesem, Koen. "Linux on PowerPC". LWN.net. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  14. ^ "Wii-Linux + T2 SDE Linux 6.0 + X Server Running XD | Linux Journal". Linux Journal. Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  15. ^ Sgi Octane MIPS64 Linux finally stable!, archived from the original on 2021-04-24, retrieved 2021-04-24
  16. ^ Latest T2/Linux kernel 4.19.2 running on the PS3! a bit of "live coding", too ;-), archived from the original on 2021-04-24, retrieved 2021-04-24