> 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 was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
I think I read recently about another large company or institution that cited the same reason for moving away from a major Linux-based OS.
> 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 was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
I think I read recently about another large company or institution that cited the same reason for moving away from a major Linux-based OS.
For industrial computers and other embedded systems.
Computing AFAIK is very much still based on RHEL-based distros, Alma Linux specifically.
https://linux.web.cern.ch/
Just in time for the slop transition ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1w58wvi/comment/p7d...