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.
Reading and writing a file will be the same in 2029 as it is today…
The only technological upgrade would be the storage device. I myself having simply changed to high-speed laptop drives, with an SD card to act as a volume cachine device. With future upgrades possibly changing to SSD drives for everything.
I also use the i7-3770 (‘s’ variant for lower power consumption) but only for ‘workstation’ configurations. I use the lower-power i3-3220t or the i5-3470t for ‘fileserver’ setups, since the system does little more than passing thru I/O requests…
I don’t believe that ‘that’ will change in the future…
Yes, that what one of the points of using Linux… “Don’t throw out your old hardware, install Linux on it, and it’s still usable…”
Since IBM bought RedHat, it will follow the same ‘path’ as MS, forcing users to purchase new hardware (collusion ?) similiar to the ‘flat screen’ television manufacturers not supporting 1440p (though, they’re just a larger version of computer monitors, which ‘do’…) so that you have to purchase new equipment (mainly video cards) to get ‘above 1080p’ resolution…
At least Microsoft’s decision will mean millions of cheap laptops and desktop will flood the market for re-use as Linux boxes.