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- Good, I wonder how much money they’ve wasted over the years paying for RHEL.by skywhopper
- Good. Debian is great and Rhel sucks
- They could have used gentoo with their own binary package server. Maximum flexibility, including all compiler flags.by M95D
- > CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control computers was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
Incompatibility with x86-64-v2 means that CERN is running some older machines, over 15 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...