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yoyo ecm application for aarch64 (ARM 64 bit)

There is now a aarch64 (ARM 64) application for ecm on Linux available. To use it you must install the package gmp-ecm with the package manager of your Linux system.Please report success or problems in our forum.
Source: http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo//all_news.php#262

Interesting, does that mean that if I was running a newish, or maybe current, version of linux on one of my droids I couild run that?
* that is assuming I knew enough about linux to be able to do the above*

Dirk or Janos might be able to point out some 64 bit linux distros for Rpi3's and other 64 bit ARM systems.

scole250 wrote:Dirk or Janos might be able to point out some 64 bit linux distros for Rpi3's and other 64 bit ARM systems.

To paraphrase a web article: "The first official 64-bit OS for Raspberry Pi arrives -- but there's a catch"

Sissy Linux -pardon: Suse Linux- 64-bit 60 day trial version

Found on the web: There is also openSUSE Leap (SUSE Linux Enterprise is based on this one) and Tumbleweed (rolling distribution) available here. Both are 64bit.