Following Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10's developer preview for RISC-V, CentOS has officially announced initial support for the RISC-V CPU ISA. This support is part of a collaborative effort where CentOS Stream, as the upstream of RHEL, aligns with RHEL 10 and Fedora 42 in focusing on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 developer board for initial RISC-V compatibility. Red Hat's approach involved a full operating system bootstrap from source code, culminating in a graphical desktop equipped with comprehensive developer tools. Dozens of packages required modifications—ranging from minor tweaks to substantial changes—to run successfully on RISC-V 64, with most patches already integrated into CentOS Stream's dist-git. A small number of packages still require out-of-tree patches, which will be made available alongside the RHEL 10 disk image on June 1, 2025, with ongoing upstreaming efforts. This move is part of Red Hat's broader goal to achieve full RISC-V support between RHEL 10 and 11, with CentOS Stream playing a key role in the ecosystem's development.