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## Introduction
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Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2 ](./LICENSE ) . It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
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Minio's design is inspired by Amazon's S3 for its API and Facebook's Haystack for its immutable data structure.
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### Join Community
* Community hangout on Gitter [![Gitter ](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg )](https://gitter.im/Minio-io/minio?utm_source=badge& utm_medium=badge& utm_campaign=pr-badge& utm_content=badge)
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### Documentation
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* [Minio Reference ](http://minio-io.github.io/minio/ )
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### Developers
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* [Get Source ](./CONTRIBUTING.md )
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* [Build Dependencies ](./BUILDDEPS.md )
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* [Development Workflow ](./CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-guidelines )
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* [Developer discussions and bugs ](https://github.com/Minio-io/minio/issues )
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### Download
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### Supported platforms
| Name | Supported |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| Linux | Yes |
| Windows | Not yet |
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| Mac OSX | Yes |
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### Supported architectures
| Arch | Supported |
| ------------- | ------------- |
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| x86-64 | Yes |
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| arm64 | Not yet|
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| i386 | Never |
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