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title: "About"
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date: 2020-04-21
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draft: false
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## History ##
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PowerEL stands for Power Enterprise Linux,
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it originates from a requirement to have a fully free open source distribution for the IBM POWER 8 and higher platform.
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The distribution takes it's inspiration and origin from various Open Source Enterprise Linux distributions such as
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Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, SuSE, and others.
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PowerEL has been optimized for specific CPU features, such as IBM Power8 or higher and Intel x86 AVX or higher,
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so it only works on cpu's with at least this set of features available.
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PowerEL provides a very convenient way of more packages out of the box.
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PowerEL uses the distro tag __pel__ and uses the same ABI as the open source rhel based systems, so you can use existing binaries on PowerEL.
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## Architectures ##
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PowerEL supports specific CPU architectures with specific feature requirements.
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- IBM POWER8 (or higher) - Big Endian : __ppc64__
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- IBM POWER8 (or higher) - Little Endian : __ppc64le__
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- Intel Xeon/i9/i7/i5/i3 with AVX support (or higher) : __x86_64__
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## Credits ##
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We thank the open source community for all the open source components that made it possible to create this distribution.
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We also would like to thank the following people, who inspired, assisted on this project.
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- Trilands bv
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- Ned Gamble (IBM Austin)
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- Jeff Scheels (IBM US)
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- Hugh Blemming (OpenPOWER Foundation)
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- Franz Bourlet (IBM Belgium)
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- Rudy Roelandt (IBM Belgium)
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- Robert Keersse (Don Bosco Leren en Werken Wilrijk)
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And many other people at IBM.
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## Pengiun ##
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The PowerEL pengiun, you may notice on the first page is a __tasmanian pengiun__.
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This pengiun belongs to the little blue pengiun species.
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It is one of the smallest pengiun species in the world still alive.
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More information on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_penguin).
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