Genesi

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Genesi Group
Company typePrivate
Industry Computer hardware, Software, IT services, IT consulting
Founded3 January 2003  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
FounderWilliam H. Buck
Raquel Velasco
Headquarters
San Antonio, Texas
Mexico City, Mexico
Frankfurt, Germany
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 manufacturing ARM architecture and Power 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.

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Genesi is an official Linaro partner [1] and its software development team has been instrumental in moving Linux on the ARM architecture towards a wider adoption of the hard-float application binary interface, which is incompatible with most existing applications but provides enormous performance gains for many use cases. [2]

Products

The main products of Genesi are ARM-based computers that were designed to be inexpensive, quiet and highly energy efficient, and a custom Open Firmware compliant firmware. All products can run a multitude of operating systems.

Current products

Discontinued products

Community support

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 to Crux, Debian, Raspbian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSuSE and Ubuntu.

Genesi once funded the development of the MorphOS operating system but shifted its focus towards Linux in 2004. However, 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.

Notes

  1. "Genesi Designs". Archived from the original on 2012-01-27. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. "Power Developer • Thorough list of armhf benchmarks!". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  3. "Power Developer - Home".
  4. "Power Developer - Home".
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2012-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)