The operating system that powers the Raspberry PI hardware is Raspberry PI OS, previously known as Raspbian. It’s a Debian-based Linux operating system designed mainly for PI boards.
64-Bit Raspberry Pi OS Is Here
The company behind Raspberry Pi OS has been testing the 64-bit version for quite some time now, and it’s finally available in the stable channel and available for everyone to download. It’s a fun fact that the company launched Raspberry PI models with a 64-bit processors even before the stable version of Raspberry PI OS 64-bit was released. Raspberry PI OS now being available in 64-bit means that more apps and services can access the higher amount of RAM in compatible Raspberry PI boards. Raspberry Pi’s Gordon Hollingworth said – “Over the past year, we’ve been trialing a beta of Raspberry Pi OS in glorious 64-bit. Now it’s time to open it up to a wider audience.” The official blog of Raspberry PI states, “We’ve come to realise that there are reasons to choose a 64-bit operating system over a 32-bit one. Compatibility is a key concern: many closed-source applications are only available for arm64, and open-source ones aren’t fully optimised for the armhf port.” “Beyond that there are some performance benefits intrinsic to the A64 instruction set: today, these are most visible in benchmarks, but the assumption is that these will feed through into real-world application performance in the future.”
Download Raspberry PI OS 64-Bit
If you want to download & install the latest Raspberry PI OS 64-bit on any compatible devices, you need to head to the official webpage. On the official page, you need to download the Raspberry Pi Imager. Then, run the imager; on the operating system dialog, select ‘Raspberry Pi OS (64-Bit)’.
If you don’t want to use the Raspberry PI imager, you can download the Raspberry PI OS (64-bit) from the below link.
Download Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop (64-bit) Download Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)
Before downloading the Raspberry PI OS (64-bit), ensure that you have a compatible Raspberry Pi board to use the new 64-bit operating system. The boards with 64-bit compatible chipset were Pi Zero 2, Pi 3, Pi 4. 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is finally out for everyone. What’s your take on this? Let us know in the comment section below. I hope this article helped you! Please share it with your friends also.
