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