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With the next generation of Enterprise releases we want to tackle the above. Intending to do radical changes (regarding technology- but also design-wise) we choose "Adaptable Linux Platform" or short "ALP" as codename for that next generation. This indicates already that some things will be quite different than a "mere "SLE 15++ would be ;)
been digging around about ALP and next level suse and container or virtualised and abstraction stuff and all and now I am personally wondering how much longer opensuse will be the distro I can make use of. I tend to run on dated and aged hardware, leftover stuff and such. Smallish servers, routers and firewalls and pretty basic stuff, all with opensuse. Then I found and read about some hardware stuff here, I have never actually heard about, various levels of x64 ABI, e.g. x86-84-v3 for example. <https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/72> Of course such stuff must exist, as the x64 world came a long way. <https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/blob/master/x86-64-ABI/low-level-sys-info.tex> Every now and then I did worry how long kernels would support my aged x86-64 processors of different vendors. Mostly old amd based stuff though, very few intel. So I ran some script extracting the "version" of the supported ABI, as of course ;) opensuse glibc would not support some fancy parameter just yet it turns out. Stephen Kitt's script at: <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/631217/how-do-i-check-if-my-cpu-supports-x86-64-v2> long story short, all my systems here support mostly -v1 only, two of them support v2, thats all. No -v3 let alone -v4 or such neat stuff How much longer will opensuse (leap or whatever it get called) support for kind of basic linux use, also for desktop but on dated hardware. I strongly dislike e-waste and all. I kind of remember the switch over to -x64 when opensuse became 64bit only ;p even though thats also some years back now. Still, I am kinda scared that almost all my hardware is essentially x86-64-v1 only, at most -v2 only. What to make of that issue 72 on code opensuse? comment of lkocman <https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/72#comment-1048> Thanks for insight. Is opensuse leap still the distro to go for these days with these major changes on the horizon? Back in the days many years ago I kind of thought in an idealistic open source software world everbody would grab the distributions and software in their source shape and form and compile and build it to their hardware themselves and everbody running ist happily on whatever hardware they had at ones disposal. ty.