Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 30 points 7 months ago

Good night sweet prince

[-] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

looks like no distros support a 486 anyway

[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 5 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure out there is at least one distro like knoppix or minix that will still support even the oldest CPUs. But yeah, nothing mainstream.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

My Packard Bell will be so sad

[-] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Should have got the Pentium.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

That’s sad. :(

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

🫡

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I wonder if that includes all 16 bit processors.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

Linux (at least the mainline version) never supported 16-bit processors. Linus started writing the operating system on his brand new 32-bit 386 machine, and he never looked back.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

Oh, I thought 486 was a 16 bit processor. My bad.

[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

That would've been the 286. Practically ancient history

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

And no MMU, so basically impossible to implement real multi tasking.

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