The T2 SDE (System Development Environment) is an
open source
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Linux distribution
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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 where dissatisfied with the project. ROCK Linux was discontinued in 2010.
In August 2006, version 6.0 was released with
ISO images for
AMD64,
i386
The Intel 386, originally released as 80386 and later renamed i386, is a 32-bit microprocessor introduced in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors[PPC64
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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.
Usage
Puppy Linux
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has used T2 SDE for compiling their packages.
AskoziaPBX has used a fork of T2 SDE because it had support for
Blackfin
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.
Archivista made a
document management system based on T2 SDE.
Hardware support
T2 SDE supports the
x86-64
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first released in 1999. It introduced two new modes of operation, 64-bit mode and compatibility mode, along with a new 4-level paging mod ...
,
x86
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,
arm64,
arm,
RISC-V
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(32 and 64 bit),
ppc64le,
ppc64-32,
sparc64,
MIPS64
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,
mipsel,
hppa
PA-RISC is an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard. As the name implies, it is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture. The design is also referred to ...
,
m68k,
alpha
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, 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
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.
See also
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OpenEmbedded
OpenEmbedded is a build automation framework and cross-compile environment used to create Linux distributions for embedded devices. The OpenEmbedded framework is developed by the OpenEmbedded community, which was formally established in 2003. Ope ...
*
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux (pronounced ) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the ...
*
Linux From Scratch
''Linux From Scratch'' (LFS) is a type of a Linux installation and the name of a book written by Gerard Beekmans, and as of May 2021, mainly maintained by Bruce Dubbs. The book gives readers instructions on how to build a Linux system from sou ...
References
External links
*
DistrowatchYouTube channelOriginal official website of ROCK Linux
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