The Raspberry Pi Foundation has made a 64-bit version of its operating system available. It won't run on all Raspberry Pi hardware but it should on some of the more modern hardware.

After successfully trialing the beta release of the Raspberry Pi 64-bit operating system, RPi Foundation team has now announced it has left its beta development stage and is now available to ...

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8GB of RAM is available now for $75. In order to map all 8GB of RAM into the address space of a single process, a 64-bit operating system is needed.

It's also launching alongside a beta version of a new 64-bit version of the Raspberry Pi OS, another first for Raspberry Pi, which has been limited to 32-bit since 2011.

To take full advantage of this extra memory, a 64-bit version of the foundation's official operating system, Raspbian, has been released in early beta, though it's now called Raspberry Pi OS.

With the 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS (or other operating systems), that’s no longer a problem. Another reason to move to a 64-bit OS? Some applications may only be available in 64-bit ...

Would-be 64-bit Pi users have of course had the chance to run 64-bit GNU/Linux operating system builds from other distributions for nearly as long as there have been Pi models with 64-bit ...

Possibly the very first fully functional 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS has been released by Balena in the form of the BalenaOS operating system which is now available to download and install on your ...

Almost a year after the Pi 4 went on sale, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has doubled the maximum memory option to 8 GB, while also renaming the default operating system and releasing a 64-bit beta ...

Running a 64-bit OS on a Raspberry Pi isn't a new idea as third-party operating systems have been offering the option for some time.

Phoronix ran a series of benchmarks and found that across the board, a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM was nearly 50% faster when running the 64-bit version of the operating system.