I’m just commissioning a new Hyper-V on my home server which is running on a refurbished Dell Optiplex 9010 with a gen 3 Intel i7-3770 CPU. It runs a treat and is not showing any signs of needing replacing.
However, I spotted this rather worrying message as the VM span up. Now I know that Microsoft is annoying a lot of people of insisting Windows 11 runs on relatively new hardware, consigning millions of perfectly functional computers to landfill.
But I didn’t expect Linux to go down this route too? Part of the appeal of Linux is running it on older hardware and saving a small part of the planet.
RHEL deprecated CPU’s in RHEL9 to be x86_64-v2 and higher. Therefore any CPU after 2012. Since Rocky 9 is based on RHEL it also has the same hardware requirements.
On that machine you can use Rocky 8 as it is supported until 2029. After that if you want to continue using Rocky you need newer hardware. I doubt very much you will still be running a computer older than 2012 in 2029+ since it would be pretty slow anyway.
Thanks - I’ll consider going back to Rocky 8. Does seem a little against the philosophy of Linux running everywhere forever but I get that sometimes you have to move on.
Core i7-3770 is still a pretty powerful CPU IMO. 4C/8T with single thread rating of 2,073 compares well with my new desktop PC running AMD Ryzen 7 5700X at 3,770. That’s only ~60% faster.
Sure the later has 16 threads so the overall CPU mark of 26,662 is more than 3770 but this server is basically a NAS with a few low-resource Linux VMs.
I don’t like throwing old but perfectly functional hardware away At least Microsoft’s decision will mean millions of cheap laptops and desktop will flood the market for re-use as Linux boxes.
RHEL 9 also works on x86-64-v2 so you can use Rocky 9 until 2032 on the i7-3770. After that there will probably be other Linux variants available for older CPU architectures.
At least Microsoft’s decision will mean millions of cheap laptops and desktop will flood the market for re-use as Linux boxes.