Pieter Van den Abeele

Pieter Van den Abeele

Pieter Van den Abeele is a computer programmer, [cite web
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The teams managed by Pieter Van den Abeele have shaped the PowerPC landscape with several "firsts". Gentoo/PowerPC was the first distribution to introduce PowerPC Live CDs. Gentoo also beat Apple to releasing a full 64-bit PowerPC userland environment for the IBM PowerPC 970 (G5) processor.

Pieter Van den Abeele's academic work at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, involves the redesign of the technology at the heart of Gentoo; Portage. His Gentoo-based Home Media and Communication System, based on a Freescale Semiconductor PowerPC 7447 processor won the Best of Show award at the inaugural 2005 Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, Florida. Pieter is also a member of the Power.org consortium and participates in committees and workgroups focusing on disruptive business plays around the Power Architecture. Pieter Van den Abeele is also a founding member of the [http://www.metapkg.com MetaPkg alliance] between Gentoo, Apple's OpenDarwin and Fink, to coordinate porting efforts.

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