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▲ chasil 3 days ago

Is Westmere the minimum architecture needed for the required SSE?

Server hardware at the minimum v2 functionality can be found for a few hundred dollars.

A competent administrator with physical access could solve this quickly.

Take a ReaR image, then restore it on the new platform.

Where are the physical servers?

▲LtdJorge 3 days ago | parent [-]

Zen 2 Epyc would barely double the price of older platforms if you buy an entire server, and would run circles around them.

▲chasil 3 days ago | parent [-]

A slow computer that does what you want is infinitely more valuable than a fast computer that does not.

▲grim_io 3 days ago | parent [-]

why would a fast computer refuse to do what you want?

▲chasil 3 days ago | parent [-]

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▲RealStickman_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

1. That's still perfectly possible 2. We're talking about x86_64 CPUs here that have been open to install your own software basically since they existed

▲chasil 2 days ago | parent [-]

More modern x86 comes with significant problems.

The minimum is now eight cores on a die for both AMD and Intel, so running a quad core system means staying on 14nm. You may loudly criticize holding back on a quad core system, but you aren't paying $47,500 per core to license Oracle Enterprise database.

The eight core minimum is a huge detriment for commercial software that is licensed by core.

This, and this alone, shatters your argument. Any other questions?

▲RealStickman_ 2 days ago | parent [-]

You can still get quad cores, here's an Epyc CPU with four cores [0]

Here's also a recent Xeon quad core [1]

Beside that, could you please show me where the F-Droid build server uses an Oracle Database?

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4004-... [1] https://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/products/sku/236193/i...

▲chasil a day ago | parent [-]

I don't know if F-Droid uses Oracle, and I don't care.

For any software licensed by core count, modern systems are usually at a disadvantage.

Next question please.