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CentOS Stream is adding RISC-V support in its next version, with images planned for commercially available hardware. The announcement came at CentOS Connect 2026 in Brussels, where presentations showcased the distribution's versatility beyond its role as RHEL's upstream. The Hyperscale SIG demonstrated large-scale deployment capabilities used by Meta, while the Kmods SIG provides non-FOSS drivers (including Nvidia) and newer kernel versions for CentOS and related distributions. The EPEL repository expands CentOS's software selection to near-Fedora levels, making it a capable general-purpose distribution despite having fewer packages than Ubuntu.

CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit