The well-known open source operating system Debian is currently undergoing final testing of the upcoming new version, Debian 13 Trixie, which is scheduled to be completely frozen on July 27 and officially released on August 9.
Debian 13 is also the first version of the system to officially support the RISC-V architecture, although support is limited to a limited number of motherboards and is hampered by slow hardware during Debian RISC-V builds.
Debian Linux originally provided support for the RISC-V architecture 10 years ago through the RISCV64 port, and now Debian 13.0 will officially support RISC-V. RV64GC is the current target for Debian RISC-V, using UEFI-based boot as the default boot method.
In terms of software packages, there are currently more than 17,000 source Debian software packages that are using Debian 13 Trixie to provide builds for the RISC-V architecture. However, after all, they are different architectures, and RISC-V users may still find that some software does not provide support for the time being.
Last week, the Debian project team held a Debian RISC-V BoF meeting and discussed the current status of Debian for RISCV64 at the DebConf25 conference in France. Interested users can click here to view the presentation: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/share/debconf25/-/raw/main/slides/213-risc-v-bof.pdf