1 OpenSDE - Open System Development Environment.
4 In 1998 Clifford Wolf created ROCK Linux [1], a great shell-based
5 'Distribution Build Kit' to help system administrators create and
6 maintain their own Linux distributions.
8 In 2004, René Rebe made his second (the first was named dROCK) fork
9 due to an (in the view of some developers) inconvenient development
10 cycle [2]. This fork with the temporary code name 'T2' [3] finally
11 turned into the T2-Project [4]. The goal of T2 was to decentralize the
12 development and revive the almost stalled ROCK-Linux development.
13 It reworked the 'Distribution Build Kit' into 'System Development
14 Environment' (SDE) to decouple it from the 'Distribution' concept
15 which is strongly linked to the Linux Kernel.
17 In May 2006 OpenSDE [5] was born, aimed at the reimplementation of the
18 build engine which should result in a more efficient and flexible
19 framework and lower the entry level for users as well as
20 developers. OpenSDE, then two months later, after personal and many
21 technical differences, was detached into its own project by
22 Alejandro Mery, supported by T2 as well as former ROCK-Linux
25 The SDE concept is intended as an open framework to build an operating
26 system (not necessarily restricted to GNU/Linux) enabling the creation
27 of systems for diverse architectures with various boot options and a
28 tailored software selection.
30 OpenSDE has now turned into an ambitious purely team-lead project
31 where decisions are made based on their technical merit uninfluenced
32 by its predecessors and contribution are judged by their quality and
35 [1] ROCK Linux - http://www.rocklinux.org/
36 [2] SubMaster - http://www.rocklinux.org/wiki/SubMaster
37 [3] 'T2' originally stood for "Try Two" and was finally kept for
38 brand recognition reasons.
39 [4] T2 Project - http://www.t2-project.org/
40 [5] OpenSDE - http://www.opensde.org/