IT House February 3 news, Raspberry Pi Pi official operating system Raspberry Pi OS has been a 32-bit version before, recently, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that its Raspberry Pi OS designed for mini DIY computers has now launched a 64-bit version.
The main benefit of 64-bit is that hardware with more than 4GB of memory can be fully utilized. Of all Raspberry Pi computers, the Raspberry Pi 1, Pi 2, and Zero support 32-bit operating systems, while Zero 2, Pi 3, and Pi 4 are capable of running 64-bit operating systems.
Officials say that because some of the closed-source software is only available for arm64 hardware, the new 64-bit version of the system is better able to run the software.
IT House understands that Raspberry Pi OS has also previously announced the creation of a "new" Debian branch system with long-term support. This version has the following features:
A previous version of Buster-based Raspberry Pi OS
Hardware-accelerated Chromium was removed and replaced with an upstream software browser
The Linux kernel branches at 5.10.y and only gets security patches from the Linux kernel
The Raspberry Pi firmware branch provides security and hardware support patches only for existing products