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    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 02:20:46 2023
    From the «my first distro» department:
    Feed: The Register
    Title: openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support
    Author: Liam Proven
    Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:32:11 -0500
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/03/09/opensuse_finds_x86_64_solution/

    Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries

    SUSE, and the openSUSE project it sponsors, has a way around the issue of optimizing its distro for specific versions of the x86-64 architecture.…



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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Sat Mar 11 08:20:09 2023
    Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
    Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/03/09/opensuse_finds_x86_64_solution/

    Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries

    SUSE, and the openSUSE project it sponsors, has a way around the issue of optimizing its distro for specific versions of the x86-64 architecture....

    Besides OpenSUSE's relatively unusual desire to use the latest
    x86_64 CPU features that they can get away with, this Glibc feature
    sounds more generally useful on ARM. Where for example the
    Raspberry Pi OS already invented their own build type because
    Debian's mix of ARM builds didn't take full advantage of the CPU in
    the first Raspberry Pi. Then they also can't use newer features of
    later RPi CPU models with that same OS image/packages.

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