The first arm64 Debian image is available

Wookey has announced the availability of the first version of the Debian operating system that works on the 64-bit ARM architecture. "Enough packages were built for arm64 to debootstrap an image which booted to a prompt! After a bit of fettling (and switching to multistrap) I got an image with all the packages configured which boots with upstart to a login prompt (I admit, I did get quite excited about this, as it represents the coming together of nearly 3 years work on multiarch, crossbuilding, bootstrapping, cyclic dependencies and arm64)." Most of us will have to wait a while to try this image, though, since arm64 hardware is not yet available.

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