Karanbir Singh from the CentOS team has had the great pleasure of announcing the general availability of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system for the ARM hardware architecture.

At the moment of writing this article, the CentOS developers haven't written any release notes on their website about what new features and optimizations have been implemented in the ARM port of the latest CentOS 7 Linux operating system, except for the very brief announcement posted on their Twitter account.

We were only given access to the download links, and based on the name of the binary images, we can tell you that CentOS 7 Linux will now work on various AMv7 devices. However, pre-built binary images are available only for the popular Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi, and CubieTruck single-board computers (SBCs).

What's new in CentOS 7 build 1511

Last week, we reported on the CentOS 7 build 1511 rolling release, which brought assorted new features, software updates and enhancements, such as Kerberos HTTP proxy for identity management, ECC support for TLS connections in OpenJDK 7, networking stack improvements, as well as updates to the Atomic packages.

Additionally, the new CentOS 7 build included support for TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2 and EC ciphers in various pre-installed packages. Also worth mentioning are full support for the virt-v2v command-line tool, nanosecond timestamps support in tcpdump, the GNOME 3.14 and KDE 4.14 desktop environments, X.Org Server 1.17 display server, LibreOffice 4.3.7 office suite, and OpenLDAP 2.4.40 open-source LDAP implementation.

This being said, we believe that the new CentOS 7 Linux for ARM devices port includes most of the aforementioned features. You can download CentOS 7 for Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi, and CubieTruck right now via our website or the project's FTP servers, from where you can also get the 64-bit Live GNOME, Live KDE, Net Install, and Minimal ISOs.

[Announce] CentOS 7 for Arm devices like Raspberry pi2, cubie truck and bannapi is now GA: download at https://t.co/sopuycrYcy — Karanbir Singh (@CentOS) December 19, 2015