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CERN wants x86-64-v1 binaries, not v2.
by winstonwinston 8d ago
CERN wants x86-64-v1 binaries, not v2.
- KAMSPioneer 7d agoAh, you're right! Somehow I "autocorrected" that when reading TFA, now it makes more sense.
- jasomill 7d agoAnd they are, in fact, planning to continue to use RHEL and/or AlmaLinux on their desktop and datacenter machines, even going so far as to adapt Fedora's build system to support building Debian packages[1] to leverage their existing RPM infrastructure. As I understand it (from reading another article[2] posted on HN a few days ago), this change applies purely to the layer of machines that more or less directly interface with their experimental hardware, which has requirements more akin to industrial controllers than workstations or servers when it comes to the expectation of long service life with limited windows for scheduled maintenance. [1] https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/rpms/koji-debian-plugin https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport/rpms/koji-debian-plugin [2] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1092512/0772b817c369632b/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1092512/0772b817c369632b/