Pieter Van den Abeele

Founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux, Van den Abeele spearheaded the Gentoo architectures and platforms effort together with Daniel Robbins. He received a scholarship from Apple Computer for founding Gentoo for Mac OS X.

In 2004, Pieter was invited to the OpenSolaris pilot program and assisted Sun Microsystems with building a development ecosystem around the Solaris operating system. He was nominated for the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board and managed a team of developers to make Gentoo available on the Solaris operating system.

Van den Abeele is a co-author of the Gentoo Social Contract and the Gentoo Handbook.