The developers of the Opensuse announced On increasing the requirements for equipment in the repository opensuse factory and collected on its basis the distribution opensuse Tumblewhed , which uses a continuous cycle of updating program versions (Rolling-renewal). The assembly of packages on Factory will be carried out for architecture X86-64-V2, and support for architectures X86-64-V1 and i586 will be abolished.
The second version of the microarchitecture x86-64 is supported by processors from about 2009 (starting with intel nehalem ) and is distinguished by the presence of extensions such as SSE3, SSE4_2, SSSE3, PopCNT, LAHF-SAHF and CMPXCHG16B. For the owners of the old X86-64 processors, in which there are no necessary opportunities, it is planned to create a separate Opensuse: Factory: LegacyX86 repository, which will be accompanied by volunteers. Что касается 32-разрядных пакетов, полноценный репозиторий для архитектуры i586 будут упразднён, но останется a small part necessary for Wine.