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title: "PowerEL 7"
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vendor: "VanTosh"
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link: "https://www.powerel.org/?opf"
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criteria: 2.0
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tags:
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- software
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- operating system
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- applications
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- compilers
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- open source
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- free
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date: 2020-01-13
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draft: false
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---
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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,
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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.
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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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