ROCK Linux was started in the summer of 1996 by Claire Wolf. T2 SDE was forked in 2004, when developers were dissatisfied with the project. ROCK Linux was discontinued in 2010. In August 2006, version 6.0 was released with
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AMD64,
i386,
PPC64 and
SPARC64. In July 2010, version 8.0 (codenamed "Phoenix") was released. In April 2021, version 21.4 was released. In July 2022, version 22.6 was released. In April 2024, version 24.5 was released. In June 2024, version 24.6 was released shipping
Wine for Windows application compatibility as well as
LibreOffice and
Mozilla Thunderbird for a complete
Linux desktop experience. In July 2024, version 24.8 was released shipping
OpenJDK for Java compatibility as well as a multi-architectural
MIPS64 Linux kernel built for SGI IP27, IP30, IP32 (r5k & r10k) as the first Linux OS release to boot on multiple
SGI RISC workstations and servers. In December 2024, version 24.12 was released with initial support for running on
Nintendo Wii U, improved
SPARC64 and
IA-64 stability, an improved global t2 package manager frontend and various other improvements. In April 2025, version 25.4 was released with worlds-first demonstrating AMD's
ROCm HPC/AI stack running on
RISC-V and
ARM64. In October 2025, version 25.10 was released expanding the base package set to a full
Wayland desktop for most architectures and significantly improving IA-64 and SPARC64 stability. == Usage ==