Editing CentOS (section)

== Architectures ==
As of version 8, CentOS fully supports [[x86-64]], [[POWER8]] and 64-bit [[AArch64|ARM]] architectures,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.centos.org/About/Product |title=About/Product - CentOS Wiki |website=CentOS Wiki |access-date=18 April 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924101625/https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product |url-status=dead }}</ref> while the following architectures are not supported:
* [[IA-32]] in all variants, not supported since CentOS&nbsp;7
* IA-32 without [[Physical Address Extension]] (PAE), not supported since CentOS&nbsp;6
* IA-64 (Intel [[Itanium]] architecture), was supported in CentOS&nbsp;3 and 4
* [[32-bit]] [[PowerPC]] ([[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[Macintosh]] and [[PowerMac]] running the G3 or G4 PowerPC processor<!-- e.g. not PowerPC G5, that was the first 64-bit PowerPC-->), [[Beta release|beta]] support was available in CentOS&nbsp;4
* [[IBM]] [[Mainframe computer|Mainframe]] ([[eServer]] [[zSeries]] and [[S/390]]), not supported since CentOS&nbsp;5
* [[DEC Alpha|Alpha]], support was available in CentOS&nbsp;4
* [[SPARC]], beta support was available in CentOS&nbsp;4

{{As of|2015|12}}, AltArch releases of CentOS&nbsp;7 are available for the ARMv7hl and [[AArch64]] variants of the [[ARM architecture]],<ref name="CentOS7.1AArch64Announcement" /> and plans exist for supporting other variants of the [[ARM architecture]]. ARM support is a community effort coordinated through the AltArch SIG.<ref name="CentOS7.1AArch64Announcement" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.karan.org/blog/2014/03/26/the-arm-plan-for-centos/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330012739/http://www.karan.org/blog/2014/03/26/the-arm-plan-for-centos/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2014 |title=The ARM plan for CentOS |last=Singh |first=Karanbir |date=26 March 2014 |access-date=27 November 2014 }}</ref> AltArch releases of CentOS&nbsp;7 are also available for the IA-32 architecture and [[Power ISA]] ([[POWER7]] and [[POWER8]] chips).<ref name="CentOS7.2AltArchAnnouncement" />

A [[Live CD]] version of CentOS is available at ''mirror.centos.org''. A bootable [[Live USB]] image of CentOS can be created manually or with [[UNetbootin]].

CentOS images are also available on [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|Amazon's EC2 cloud]], in form of prebuilt and already published [[Amazon Machine Image]]s (AMIs).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS |title=Cloud/AWS (CentOS documentation) |website=centos.org |access-date=18 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-June/019802.html |title=[CentOS-announce] Updated AMI's for Amazon EC2 are now available |date=21 June 2013 |website=centos.org |access-date=18 October 2013}}</ref>