On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Fait, James F. wrote:
as it was evident that the large company was not interested in the
small research community that was using the hardware to solve
problems that they were never going to make any money on.
I see the same thing happening with RHEL, and I doubt seriously that
there will be a RHEL 9, as IBM will not see it as in their interest
to develop it. Time to move on.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__app.community.engage.redhat.com_e_er-3Fs-3D17900033-26lid-3D2318-26elqTrackId&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=qV8CCGQyFiPng2RnnLNz1_stptB75oWIxXpp9S2Sv4g&s=hDxjQH3Af2JNUJ-I79Hinn-s5oro-DUWfUuD99JGmaM&e=
=afa8068f0af74352991aacaa6ef81bdf&elq=254c98cc861f43f1824d551183aa6dfc&elqai
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discusses the x86_64 microarchitecture(s) which RHEL9 will support,
so they are working on it, even if it never sees the light of day.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
and...@aitchison.me.uk
