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Debian 9 ‘Stretch’ Offers Improved Security on Multiple Architectures

By Sean Michael Kerner

Debian has long supported many different system architecture beyond just the typical x86 platforms. Debian 9 supports ten different architectures including: 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit little-endian Motorola/IBM PowerPC (ppc64el), 64-bit IBM S/390 (s390x), for ARM, armel and armhf for older and more recent 32-bit hardware, s arm64 for the 64-bit “AArch64” architecture,  32-bit mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian) and mips64el architecture for 64-bit little-endian hardware.

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