On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Fait, James F. wrote: > as it was evident that the large company was not interested in the > small research community that was using the hardware to solve > problems that they were never going to make any money on. > I see the same thing happening with RHEL, and I doubt seriously that > there will be a RHEL 9, as IBM will not see it as in their interest > to develop it. Time to move on. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__app.community.engage.redhat.com_e_er-3Fs-3D17900033-26lid-3D2318-26elqTrackId&d=DwIBAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=qV8CCGQyFiPng2RnnLNz1_stptB75oWIxXpp9S2Sv4g&s=hDxjQH3Af2JNUJ-I79Hinn-s5oro-DUWfUuD99JGmaM&e= =afa8068f0af74352991aacaa6ef81bdf&elq=254c98cc861f43f1824d551183aa6dfc&elqai d=451&elqat= discusses the x86_64 microarchitecture(s) which RHEL9 will support, so they are working on it, even if it never sees the light of day. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK [log in to unmask]