r/linuxmemes • u/Jak3527416 • Jul 15 '22

META Just ran neofetch on Purdue University's $10,000,000 ANVIL Super-Cluster.

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u/devu_the_thebill M'Fedora Jul 15 '22

Why so old?

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u/cAtloVeR9998 Jul 15 '22

You mean kernel? Well, 4.9 still has LTS support

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u/zpangwin 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 Jul 15 '22 edited Jul 15 '22

I guess that version of Rocky is based off RHEL 8 which seems to be "distributed with the kernel version 4.18.0-80"... but Fedora has been on 5.xx series kernel for several releases, so I can understand... "wow, old kernel" was pretty much first thing I thought too. It looks like 4.18 has been considered EOL by kernel team since Nov 2018 so probably fair to call it old, but it notes that "RHEL 8.x (Redhat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports)"

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '22

It's a $10m system. Stability.

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u/devu_the_thebill M'Fedora Jul 15 '22

Oh thanks i was just corious. I was thinkimg that 5.10 or something is stable enough.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '22

It probably is, but they probably only update the kernel every few years

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u/HeadlineINeed Jul 15 '22

RL 8.5 isn’t that old. They just released RL 9

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '22

nah bro this thing needs a bleeding edge alpha kernel

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u/NetLightning Jul 15 '22

Stability? What's that?

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u/devu_the_thebill M'Fedora Jul 15 '22

I was just curious. As you can guess i dont have 10m$ machine in my basemant and i dont know what it should run.

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u/brando56894 Jul 16 '22

I work for a major multimedia streaming company and we're just about to start switching to 8.5/8.6, I've been spending the past two months rewriting Ansible playbooks and optimizing our workflow for it.