LibrePower — Open Source for IBM Power Systems
Open Source for IBM Power — AIX · IBM i · Linux ppc64le
LibrePower

LibrePower

Unlocking Power Systems through Open Source.
Unmatched RAS and TCO. Minimal footprint.

Why IBM Power

The infrastructure the world runs on

Unmatched RAS

Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability built into the silicon. Hot-swap everything. Predictive failure analysis. Zero unplanned downtime.

Superior TCO

Fewer cores doing more work. Consolidate hundreds of x86 servers into a single Power frame — on-premises or in the cloud.

Minimal Footprint 🌍

Less hardware, less energy, less cooling. Power delivers more compute per watt, reducing your data center's environmental impact.

The Problem

Enterprise IT is stuck between two worlds.

IBM Power runs the core of global finance, healthcare, and retail. But adopting modern open source on Power means navigating IBM's consulting cycle — expensive, slow, and complex.

LibrePower is that bridge.

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Top 10 global banks
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Credit card transactions
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Enterprise sites
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Fortune 500 on
Power or mainframes

Open Source Tools

Building the future of Power

All repos
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LibrePower AIX

Open source RPM repository for AIX. Install packages with dnf — modern package management on Power.

fzfripgrepezafdyqdeltarclonePHP 8.3MariaDB +25 more
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GitLab CI/CD Runner

Build on real POWER hardware. Free for open source. No hardware needed — run your pipelines on ppc64le.

4 cores, 8GB RAM per job
Any ppc64le Docker image
Up to 1 hour per job
Rust, Go, C, Python, Node
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AWX for ppc64le

Native Ansible AWX on Power. No x86 dependencies. Full automation platform for your IBM Power infrastructure.

Native ppc64le containers
Zero x86 emulation overhead
Full Ansible Automation Platform
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Docling for ppc64le

AI-powered document processing on Power. Extract text, tables, and images from PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, and more.

UbuntuAIXPDFDOCXPPTXHTML
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LibrePower IBM i

Open source utilities for IBM i. Modernize your PASE workflows with curated, supported packages.

IBM i PASE environment
Modern CLI utilities
Package management
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Got unused POWER hardware? We accept donations

Three tiers. One standard.

LibrePower Certifications.

Certify your software
LibrePower Tier 1
Tier 1

Works on Power

Compiles and runs correctly on ppc64le. Basic functional validation.

For open source projects

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What's included

Compilation verification
Basic functionality tests
Badge for your repo & docs
LibrePower Tier 2
Tier 2

Optimized for Power

Tuned for performance. Leverages SMT, VSX/MMA, and Power-specific optimizations.

For small ISVs

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What's included

Performance profiling
Architecture-specific tuning
Benchmark report
Premium badge + catalog listing
LibrePower Tier 3
Tier 3

LibrePower Certified

Enterprise-grade validation with ongoing support and co-marketing opportunities.

For ISVs targeting enterprise

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What's included

Full optimization suite
Technical case study
Priority support channel
Co-marketing & PR
Three tiers. One standard.

LibrePower Certifications.

Certify your software
Tier 1
Tier 1

Works on Power

Compiles and runs correctly on ppc64le. Basic functional validation.

Compilation verification
Basic functionality tests
Badge for your repo & docs

For open source projects

Tier 2
Tier 2

Optimized for Power

Tuned for performance. Leverages SMT, VSX/MMA, and Power-specific optimizations.

Performance profiling
Architecture-specific tuning
Benchmark report
Premium badge + catalog listing

For small ISVs

Tier 3
Tier 3

LibrePower Certified

Enterprise-grade validation with ongoing support and co-marketing opportunities.

Full optimization suite
Technical case study
Priority support channel
Co-marketing & PR

For ISVs targeting enterprise

Enterprise Support · by SIXE

Run open source on Power,
fully supported.

Delivered by IBM Business Partner

Free packages aren't the same as a supported platform. When AIX or IBM i runs your business, you need SLA-backed help, hardening and custom builds — from the engineers who package and sign the software.

That's where SIXE comes in. Tickets answered by Power experts and IBM Champions — the same team that builds the stack — for customers anywhere in the world.

Signed & scanned

GPG-pinned keys, daily CVE scans, kept current.

Hardening & custom ports

Builds tuned to your baseline. Missing package? We port it.

Talk to the engineers

No first-line maze. The team that builds the packages.

Modernize, don't replace

DevOps, observability, databases — on the LPAR you run.

AIX 7.1 · 7.2 · 7.3

AIX support

71 GPG-signed packages installable with dnf. SLA support, hardening, custom ports.
IBM i 7.3 · 7.4 · 7.5 · PASE

IBM i support

Curated open source for PASE installable with yum. SLA support, hardening, modernization.

EN · FR · ES · DE · packages stay free for the community.

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LibrePower

The future of enterprise is "Resilience First" — on-prem, hybrid, or in the cloud

LibrePower is the transmission mechanism between open source innovation and the hardware the global economy depends on. Whether your Power infrastructure runs in your data center, in a hybrid environment, or on cloud — modern software meets unbreakable infrastructure.

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