2 T2 System Development Environment
3 ... more than a Linux distribution.
5 T2 SDE is not just a regular Linux distribution - it is a flexible
6 Open Source System Development Environment or Distribution Build Kit.
7 Others might even name it Meta Distribution. T2 allows the creation of
8 custom distributions with state of the art technology, up-to-date
9 packages and integrated support for cross compilation. Currently the
10 Linux kernel is usually used, but we also started to port T2 to
11 support compiling home-brew like open source package add-ons on macOS,
12 other BSDs, classic Unix systems (Irix, ...) or support bootstrapping
13 alternative micro kernel systems (like a L4 variant or
14 Fuchsia). Similarly building Haiku, Android, Minix, Hurd, Open (or
15 Pure) Darwin, Haiku and OpenBSD could be supported, too.
19 It is usually best to start with a pre-built ISO download. More
20 information, including about the latest source tree are at:
22 https://t2sde.org/download/
26 Historically we adapted SVN when it was state of the art. Currently
27 we mirror to Git for user's convenience and might switch to it as
28 primary repository in the future.
30 # Feature & bug bounties
32 In 2021 René Rebe's https://exactcode.com started a feature bounty
33 program! At the time of writing paying out 10€ for bounty-S, 25€ for
34 bounty-M, 50€ for bounty-L and 100€ for bounty-XL feature requests
35 issues marked so by "rxrbln". Additionally, since autumn 2023 one
36 binary Euro (2.56€) may be eligible for any other bug filled by the
39 The provided patch or pull request must be reasonable clean code and
40 reproducible (at least mostly) build and work. Successful bounties are
41 paid out thru PayPal or -if preferred, and reasoable for the amount-
42 wire transfer within the EU.
44 https://github.com/rxrbln/t2sde/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3Arxrbln
48 "T2" started as a community driven fork of the ROCK Linux project in
49 2004 which aims at simplicity, clean and lightweight Linux build system.
51 "T2" was an intern project name for "try two / second try" or "technology
52 two". The idea was to eventually choose a more public relation aware
53 name, but somehow we just kept sticking with t2 so far ;-)