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On Samstag, 8. Oktober 2022 16:20:58 CEST Fritz Hudnut wrote:
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From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de> To: factory@lists.opensuse.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 08:13:11 +0200 Subject: Re: x86-64-v2: oggenc, zstd
Yes, systems mainly doing heavy work will be upgraded when faster hardware and budget is available. But the former high performance systems remain suitable for doing ordinary work for long time.
Yes. But the question remains on how many of those you plan to run tumbleweed on.
Greetings, Stephan
Stephan: As posted previously, I'm running TW and a number of Gecko Rolling, and Debian Sid, and Manjaro, along with Lubuntu developmental . . . on a '12 cMP using a Xeon i7 processor of that era
All Core i3/5/7 are at least x86_64-v2, so you can upgrade that to Leap 16.0 or whatever it will be called. Assuming a release in 2023 Leap 16.x will be supported until 2033, i.e. more than 20 years after the hardware has been released.
. . . . The plan is to run it until a number of parts blow up. I'm also running Leap 15.5 on an '09 MBP using Core2Duo processor, perfectly competent for daily driver.
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You will be able to keep running this with Leap 15.5, which will likely be supported until 2028, you can (try to) keep this hardware running for 19 years. Regards, Stefan