64bit OS for Raspberry Pi 3 [closed]

Question

I have a Raspbery Pi 3 and I am looking to use the 64-bit processor (if possible) that comes with it.

My question is - are there any 64-bit operating systems currently available for the Pi 3? I see that Raspbian Jessie was last updated in on 27th May - but there is no mention of 64-bit functionality.

I've tried Googling to discover the answer here, but I am having little success with this method.

Answer 1

You can now get SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi, which is a 64bit OS. There is also documentation here.

There is also openSUSE Leap (SUSE Linux Enterprise is based on this one) and Tumbleweed (rolling distribution) available here. Both are 64bit.

Answer 2

Yes there are several 64bit Linux' out there for Pi3, Arch Linux for example.

The reason you'd want to use a 64bit OS on ARM has nothing to do with DRAM addressing (32bit Arm7a has address extensions that allow 1 TeraByte). The AARM64 architecture has numerous advantages over AARCH32; full DP floating point in hardware, a deeper SIMD/NEON vector, more registers. It's about twice as fast in dp-floatng point tests, faster yet for crypto. 64bit likely uses marginally more DRAM to execute.

Answer 3

You can now get a 64Bit version of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi. Its been labelled as Windows 10 IoT Core Pro.

Use the below link to find a distributor: https://www.windowsforiotdevices.com/