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add some more credits 

Signed-off-by: Toshaan Bharvani <toshaan@vantosh.com>
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--- ---
title: "About" title: "About"
date: 2018-06-24 date: 2020-04-21
draft: false draft: false
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## History ## ## History ##


PowerEL stands for Power Enterprise Linux, it originates from a requirement to have a fully free open source distribution for the IBM POWER 8 and higher platform. PowerEL stands for Power Enterprise Linux,
The distribution takes it's inspiration and origin from various Open Source Enterprise Linux distributions such as Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, SuSE, and others. it originates from a requirement to have a fully free open source distribution for the IBM POWER 8 and higher platform.
PowerEL has been optimized for specific CPU features, such as IBM Power8 or higher and Intel x86 AVX or higher, so it only works on cpu's with at least this set of features available. The distribution takes it's inspiration and origin from various Open Source Enterprise Linux distributions such as
Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, SuSE, and others.
PowerEL has been optimized for specific CPU features, such as IBM Power8 or higher and Intel x86 AVX or higher,
so it only works on cpu's with at least this set of features available.
PowerEL provides a very convenient way of more packages out of the box. PowerEL provides a very convenient way of more packages out of the box.
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. 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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We thank the open source community for all the open source components that made it possible to create this distribution. We thank the open source community for all the open source components that made it possible to create this distribution.
We also would like to thank the following people, who inspired, assisted on this project. We also would like to thank the following people, who inspired, assisted on this project.


- Trilands bvba Antwerpen - Trilands bv
- Ned Gamble (IBM Austin)
- Jeff Scheels (IBM US)
- Hugh Blemming (OpenPOWER Foundation)
- Franz Bourlet (IBM Belgium) - Franz Bourlet (IBM Belgium)
- Rudy Roelandt (IBM Belgium) - Rudy Roelandt (IBM Belgium)
- Robert Keersse (Don Bosco Leren en Werken Wilrijk) - Robert Keersse (Don Bosco Leren en Werken Wilrijk)



And many other people at IBM. And many other people at IBM.


## Pengiun ## ## Pengiun ##

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