Pieter Abeele

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
Pieter Abeele

Name: Pieter Van den Abeele

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

  • Computer programmer and founder of the PowerPC version of Gentoo Linux.

Honors and awards

  • Founded Gentoo for macOS, for which he received a scholarship by Apple Computer.
  • Invited to the OpenSolaris pilot program, and assisted Sun Microsystems with building a development eco-system around the Solaris operating system.
  • Nominated for the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board, and managed a team of developers to make Gentoo available on the Solaris operating system.