With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian "Trixie" release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture.

The Debian Project announced today that the RISC-V (riscv64) hardware architecture is now officially supported by the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Until today, Debian was …

But one of the big features planned for Debian 13.0 (planned for 9 August) is supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially …

Now at least one mainline Linux distribution will officially support this architecture. While Debian did have some support for RISC-V before this as a Debian port, which was not officially part of ...

The addition of RISC-V 64 support expands Debian support to cover a commendable crop of computing chips. This ranges from the familiar Intel/AMD chips most of us use through to more …

Debian 13 marks a significant milestone as the first official release of the distribution to support the RISC-V architecture. While support remains limited to a small number of compatible …

For all the others, I am happy to share the good news: riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture If you don't believe it, just have a look at [1]. However before you rush to update …