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