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

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 30 points 6 days ago

Good night sweet prince

[–] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

looks like no distros support a 486 anyway

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 5 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

My Packard Bell will be so sad

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Should have got the Pentium.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

That’s sad. :(

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

🫡

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if that includes all 16 bit processors.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That would've been the 286. Practically ancient history

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

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