First Debian/Ubuntu Bootable ARM64 Images Released

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:30AM from the be-prepared dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With work done by ARM and Linaro, there is now a bootable image of Debian/Ubuntu that works for ARM64, the new 64-bit ARM architecture. There are still some caveats and work ahead, but Linux is once again the first platform that has software ready to run on a new architecture when released. This 64-bit ARM Linux support also includes the ability to run 32-bit ARM software side-by-side." You can grab a bootable rootfs, but there's no hardware to actually run it on now (the developers are using the free-as-in-beer simulator from ARM). Kernel support for the architecture was released around a year ago; this is more a tale of getting from a bootable kernel to a bootable operating system.

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Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-27 02:35 · Score: 0, Troll

Finally, we can overcome the 4gb limit of memory on my smartphone. I can open so many apps now!

ps: People of the future, this was not meant to be ironic, 4gb was still a lot for a phone back then.