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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware,Software,IT services,IT consulting |
| Founded | 3 January 2003  |
| Founder | William H. Buck Raquel Velasco |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | genesi-tech.com |
Genesi is an international group of technology and consulting companies in the United States, Mexico and Germany. It is most widely known for designing and manufacturingARM architecture andPower ISA-based computing devices. The Genesi Group consists of Genesi USA Inc., Genesi Americas LLC, Genesi Europe UG, Red Efika, bPlan GmbH and the affiliated non-profit organization Power2People.
As of 2012, Genesi was an officialLinaro partner[1] and its software development team was instrumental in moving Linux on theARM architecture towards a wider adoption of the hard-floatapplication binary interface, which was incompatible with most existing applications but provided large performance gains for many use cases as of 2012.[2]
The main products of Genesi are ARM-based computers that were designed to be inexpensive, quiet and highly energy efficient, and a customOpen Firmware compliantfirmware. All products can run a multitude of operating systems.
Genesi designed and maintains PowerDeveloper,[3] an online platform for Genesi products and ARM products from other manufacturers. Via the PowerDeveloper Projects programs, hundreds of systems[4] have been provided to the PowerDeveloper community so far, thereby supporting open source development in many countries. Linux distributions that directly benefited from the programs include but are not limited toCrux,Debian,Raspbian,Fedora,Gentoo,openSuSE andUbuntu.
Genesi once funded the development of theMorphOSoperating system but shifted its focus towards Linux in 2004. However, as of 2011, Genesi remains the main supporter of the operating system and continues to actively support its user and developer communities via the MorphZone[5] social platform, which features discussion forums, a digital library, a software repository and a bounty system.
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