> On 07/01/2024 19:56, John Cooper via CentOS-devel wrote: >> Hi Phil, >> >> I accept that you would be for the v3 base line, however the v3 base >> line would obliterate the 3 system home lab. I entered the home lab >> community in the last 2 years at most, the Dell PowerEdge R620 are my >> very first home lab servers. What’s more they were gifts. >> > > I'll also repeat here what was said on IRC. RHEL 9 is x86_64-v2 and also > has the megaraid_sas driver that supports your controller. RHEL 9 works > on an R620 withg an H710p RAID controller and is not going away until > 2032 so you are safe to use your hardware on RHEL 9 until then. At that > point a Dell R620 will be approximately 20 years old and if you haven't > already replaced it with something newer then you probably should do. > Your hardware will continue to function on RHEL 9 until then. But, if he later wanted to run RHEL 10 on it in a VM, this would still not be possible, right? IMHO the whole IT industry and community does quite a bad job here making systems obsolete on a large scale with no real technical requirement. Technically, it would be possible to implement complete operating systems and applications in a way which makes them dynamically select and use the offered capabilities of the underlying hardware. We really should never forget that. Regards, Simon