It's FOSSIf you are running an i486 CPU, you will want to read this.
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-i486-cpu-support-removal/
OldCoderThis means that support for true 386s is gone as well, doesn't it?
I maintain both a 64-bit #Linux #distro and a 32-bit version because the latter is nearly as easy as just doing multilibs [which is what #Debian and some other distros do].
But my 32-bit distro won't boot on genuine 386 PCs even now, before kernel 7.1 arrives, will it?
I maintain both a 64-bit #Linux #distro and a 32-bit version because the latter is nearly as easy as just doing multilibs [which is what #Debian and some other distros do].
But my 32-bit distro won't boot on genuine 386 PCs even now, before kernel 7.1 arrives, will it?
Steinar BangRetired my last i486 in 2016.
Or: it kind of retired itself...
Bought in 1998 from a friend who bought it new in 1996, replaced win95 (or 98) that was on it when I bought it, with SuSE linux.
When SuSE failed to update it ran for a while using floppyfw (created by a friend of mine)
In 2001, I put a debian netinstall floppy into the floppy disk drive and installed debian and ran "apt dist-upgrade" from 2001 to 2016 when the HW finally failed.
Raster@itsfoss In the worst case, I think some BSD flavours are still supporting it in a way or another; at least nominally NetBSD has it as minimal requirement.
NetBSD even support Amiga48k...!
elgregor@itsfoss cmon Linux keep support