chips like Intel's old Core 2 Duo, which comprises about 47 percent of their fleet
That’s just a crazy number and I was not aware how dated their systems were. On the other hand, never touch a running system.
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as a Debian user: I wish they had chosen a distro that didn't just decide to accept slop contributions.
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The reason is old hardware support:
The reason for all that was a compiler flag. When Red Hat builds RHEL, it picks a minimum CPU generation the software will run on. RHEL 9's cutoff already excludes CERN's oldest boards, the kind running chips like Intel's old Core 2 Duo, which comprises about 47 percent of their fleet.
RHEL 10 raises that cutoff again, and this time even newer Ivy Bridge-generation boards, another 17 percent, fall on the wrong side of it.
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