14 DAY TRIAL // Peter Robinson has announced that Fedora 22 for AArch64, a community-driven and -built operating system, has been released and is now available for download.
We saw the release of Fedora 22 yesterday, for the regular architectures, but now we also get a chance to install and run the AArch64 version of the distro, which is built specifically for 64-bit ARM architecture. Despite the fact that it runs on a very different hardware platform, there aren't any differences from the regular iteration of Fedora.
The ARM architecture has been getting a lot of traction in the past couple of years, and more devices are now shipping with this particular processor. They are not as powerful as their X86 counterparts, but they are a lot less power-hungry, and they can fit in all kinds of small devices.
Fedora 22 for ARM is community driven
ARM is still not a platform that's worthy for prime time, so it's left to the community and freelance developers to adapt distros for this architecture. The same happens with Fedora 22 for AArch64, but you can't really tell that it's not done by the official team.
"In addition to the latest versions of all your favorite free and open source software, Fedora 22 marks our second release with distinctly-targeted offerings for cloud computing, the server room, and the desktops and laptops of software developers and creators everywhere. Thanks to the hard work of developers, designers, packagers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and everyone else, we're incredibly confident in saying that this is our best and most polished release yet," reads the official announcement.
Fedora 22 for AArch64 is built for next-generation servers, and its developers are saying that it's going to be a game changer. You can find the download links and the installation instructions on the official website.