openSUSE finds an elegant solution to x86-64 version support
SUSE, and the openSUSE project it sponsors, has a way around the issue of optimizing its distro for specific versions of the x86-64 architecture.
This new move was announced last week and will, hopefully, resolve the issues over x86-64 support that have been causing dissent in the distros' communities. Back in July we reported that SUSE's new ALP distro might need x86-64-v3. Then, later, the rolling-release Tumbleweed distro considered requiring x86-64-v2. Apparently, though, enough users still ran older kit that didn't support v2 and complained that the project leaders backed down and decided the new requirement would be dropped.