Background Information

Forked from ROCK Linux in 2004 and released in August 2006, T2 Linux is a System Development Environment designed to help users automate the creation of tailor-made GNU/Linux distributions that feature the latest software packages.

The core purpose of T2 is to create a decentralized development and clean a framework for spin-off projects and customized Linux distributions while having the advantage of being highly portable to other architectures. To date, there is support for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, CRIS, HPPA, HPPA64, IA64, MIPS, MIPS64, Motorola 68000 (68k), PowerPC, PowerPC-64, SPARC, SPARC64 (UltraSPARC), SuperH, x86, and x86-64.

Technical Specifications

General Information

  • Developer: René Rebe
  • Licensing: GNU General Public License
  • OS Family: Linux (Unix-like)
  • Initial Release Date: August of 2006
  • Latest Release Date: July 30, 2024

Availability Information

  • Languages: Multilingual
  • Platforms: alpha, arm, arm64, ia64, hppa, loongarch64 Microblaze, MIPS64, mipsel, m68k, OpenRISC, RISC-V (32 and 64 bit), ppc64le, ppc64-32, sparc64, x86, and x86-64

System Information

  • Working State: Current
  • Source Model: Open Source
  • Update Method: Source-based
  • Package Manager: SRC, MINE
  • Userland: GNU
  • Default User Interface: AfterStep, Blackbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, WMaker

Additional Information