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Common traps in T2 Linux

Alexander Orlovsky - Orlovsky Consulting GbR edited this page May 17, 2026 · 3 revisions

Here just some facts about T2 Linux

Do upstream packages creators care about T2 Linux? No they not! Take example of GMP library , this library if wrong configured can destroy a cpu during the build!

Sometimes during building pipeline you need to manipulate make files on the fly: this of course not good, but if you dealing with legacy packages , still nobody wants to rewrite those tools , i personally think that it make no sense to do rewrite hint to Ubuntu devs: what you doing is waste of time.

T2 Linux compiles and build at first try! Not true, you need to adjust package/s conf or desc files in order to achieve this, sometimes removing cpu architecture related patch can solve a problem and sometimes you need to go hardcore and completely refactor the desc or conf file!

T2 is not for everyone! Well it depends, me i need to build my version of T2 Linux , some people would be happy if they just grub default T2 Linux and that's ok!

T2 can't be used in enterprise! Not true, it can be used in enterprise, sure it would need adjustments and maybe some sort of audit , but it can work in real-time especially as embedded solution.

T2 and security and community Security is one patch away and community constant growing , sure if you use some obscure software which was not updated like in years, you will automatically become a "maintainer" or you will find or hire somebody which can do for you the dev maintainer work.

Help my build is failed! Don't panic, take break, calm yourself, remember this only a software , there always a solution.

Here funny story : one day i building T2 Linux image everything going according to my plan, then unexpected i see error message which not related to the build and as result build error out, as i discovered later my host on usb drive completely destroy itself , way to many write read operations on usb drive partition, haha ;) This days i configure my build everything on harddrive both swap partition and /tmp they are all mount on my ssd disk.

Building T2 Linux 100% can be frustrating! Remember you dealing with rolling distro, it is always in "bleeding edge" , one of the up to date distros in the world actually, so yes it's frustrating when package fails, but you analyze why it failed , sometimes deselect and disabling package in packages list would and can help.

T2 Linux as hacker version of Linux? Hackers in my opinion should be able to use everything, theirs nature not to demanding, some people claim Kali is hacker distribution, well i didn't try it , but Kali Linux is an Arch distro in disguise with a lot of tools , but T2 can be even better then Kali just look up different build configurations.

Is it possible to migrate from Windows to Linux? Yes, but it may require the usage of VM or windows emu software , the reality is Linux is great base upon which you can build your custom stuff.

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