The Raspberry Pi Foundation has made a 64-bit version of its operating system available. It won't run on all Raspberry Pi hardware but it should on some of the more modern hardware.

The download files are xz-compressed images, the Pi 2/3 image is about 1.5GB and the Pi 1/Zero image is about 1.1GB. The installation requires at least an 8GB SD card.

The Raspberry Pi in general (and the Zero W model in particular) are wonderful pieces of hardware, but they’re not entirely plug-and-play when it comes to embedded applications. The user is o… ...