## Introduction

Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](./LICENSE) . It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
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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### Documentation
* [Minio Reference](http://minio-io.github.io/minio/)

### Developers
* [Get Source](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [Build Dependencies](./BUILDDEPS.md)
* [Development Workflow](./CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-guidelines)
* [Developer discussions and bugs](https://github.com/Minio-io/minio/issues)

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### Supported platforms

| Name  | Supported |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| Linux  | Yes  |
| Windows | Not yet |
| Mac OSX | Yes |

### Supported architectures

| Arch | Supported |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| x86-64 | Yes |
| arm64 | Not yet|
| i386 | Never |

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