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Tumbleweed to Roll Out Mitigation Plan, Advance Microarchitecture

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 28, 2022

A mitigation plan for a microarchitecture level change and information about advancing openSUSE’s rolling release Tumbleweed to an x86-64-v2 microarchitecture kicked off a significant move forward for the project this week.

Tumbleweed and openSUSE other distributions are built for old x86-64-v1 hardware and transitioning to x86-64-v2 will require community efforts to support users with hardware that can’t make the transition to the microarchitecture.

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