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Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
atoponce@fosstodon.org ("Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:") wrote:
CERN is dropping #RHEL for #Debian. All 2200+ systems by the end of the year.
The reason being is that the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
It's not without headaches, mostly due to "the lack of standard tooling for automated building and publishing of packages - a lot of gaps in the official tooling. There are also a number of tools not supporting multiple versions of the same packages."