CentOS developer Jim Perrin reports on January 4, 2017, the release and general availability of the CentOS Linux 7.3 (1611) operating system for AArch64/ARM64 machines.
CentOS Linux 7.3 (1611) is based on the freely distributed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3. Coming three weeks after Karanbir Singh’s announcement of CentOS Linux 7.3 (1611) on x86_64 (64-bit) hardware, as well as Fabian Arrotin’s release for the CentOS userland 7.3 (1611) on ARMhf platforms, the latest version of the server-oriented operating system can now be used on AArch64 (ARM64) machines, too.
“I am pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1611) for AArch64/ARM64 machines. The kernel has been rebased from 4.2.0 to 4.5.0, and includes several patches recently merged into the upstream,” said Jim Perrin in the mailing list announcement. “The kernel patches and modifications can be found at https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-altarch!kernel.git in the sig-altarch7-aarch64 branch.”