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Comment by bayindirh | Hacker News Reader

The newest x86_64-v1 server is older than a decade now, and I'm not sure -v2 is deprecated. RockyLinux 9 is running happily on -v2 hardware downstairs.

Oh, -v2 is deprecated for RH10. Not a big deal, honestly.

From a fleet perspective, I prefer more code uses more advanced instructions on my processors. Efficiency goes up on hot code paths possibly. What's not to love?

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Rocky linux is in cahoots with Oracle, do not supporting that with anything, not even with words. Go Alma linux if you need Red Hat but with different name but for love of anything good in this world, boycott everyone friendly with Ellison.

Interesting. Source?

One more reason to switch to a better alternative:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1010868/

https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-27-welcoming-almalinux-10...

tl;dr: AlmaLinux will support v2 in EL10 as a separate rebuild in the near future.

In our case OS selection is done on a case by case basis, and we don't take sides. In our case depreciation of V2 has no practical implications, either.

This is also same on the personal level. I use the OS which is most suitable for the task at hand, and the root OS (Debian / RedHat / etc.) doesn't matter. I'm comfortable with all of them the same.

We already support it - the build is live.

https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/10/isos/x86_64_v2/

We even do a full EPEL rebuild for it as well.

The newest x86_64-v1 server is older than a decade now

Did you mean v3?

No, v1. I mean, you can't buy a x86_64-v1 server for a decade now, and if you have one and it's alive, it's a very slim chance it's working unless it's new old stock.

If it has seen any decent amount of workload during its lifetime, it possibly has a couple of ICs which reached their end of their electronic life and malfunctioning.

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