Databases & Operating Systems — LibrePower
LibrePower Stack

Open Source
Stack

The databases, operating systems, and tools that power LibrePower on IBM Power Systems.

The Stack

Databases & Operating Systems

The foundation of enterprise infrastructure on IBM Power Systems.

MariaDB

Relational DB for Power

High-performance MySQL fork with enterprise features. Native ppc64le builds optimized for AIX and Linux on Power.

ACID transactions & InnoDB
High availability & replication
Full SQL compliance
AIX ppc64le Linux MySQL Compatible

AIX

Open source tooling on AIX

IBM's enterprise Unix with the LibrePower AIX repository. Modern CLI tools and package management via DNF.

DNF package manager
Modern CLI utilities
Enterprise-grade stability
Unix RPM Packages POWER7+

Linux

Linux on ppc64le

Full Linux distribution support on Power architecture. Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES with native container runtime.

Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES distros
Native container support
Cloud-native orchestration
ppc64le Containers Kubernetes

Need something specific?

We're porting new packages weekly. Request a package or contribute your own to LibrePower AIX.

LibrePower — Open Source for IBM Power Systems