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