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title: "About"
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date: 2018-06-24
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draft: false
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---
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## History ##
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PowerEL stands for Power Enterprise Linux, it originates from a requirement to have a fully free open source distribution for the IBM POWER platform.
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The distribution takes it's origin from Enterprise Linux from Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and some Fedora and SuSE features.
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While currently CentOS is available on for Power8, it doesn't have an optimized version and if follows the RHEL features wich are limited.
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In making PowerEL more usable, an Intel CPU optimized version is also available.
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PowerEL uses the distro tag __pel__ and uses the same ABI as the rhel based systems, so you can use existing binaries on PowerEL.
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PowerEL is a optimized version with specific cpu architecture optimzed compiled packages, so it only works on cpu's with at least this set of features available.
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## Architectures ##
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PowerEL supports specific CPU architectures with specific feature requirements.
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- IBM Power8 Big Endian : __ppc64__
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- IBM Power8 Little Endian : __ppc64le__
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- Intel Xeon/i9/i7/i5/i3 with AVX support : __x86_64__
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