Linux 7.1 is finally ending support for Intel's 37-year-old 486 processor

[atanase@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft It feels like it came out yesterday

[brad@1040ste.net]

@nixCraft I get it, I'm old

[leisefuxx@chaos.social]

@nixCraft dang it. now i finally have to buy new hardware

[lhengstmengel@mastodon.nl]

@nixCraft the first computer I ever installed linux on was a pentium 1. Does that make me young now?

[coastgnu@norden.social]

@brad @nixCraft

I really feld beeing old when i386 Distributions ended!

[jcnotwit@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft I remember a friend of mine being out-of-this-world excited when he ditched his old rig with a 386SX processor for a self-built system with a 486. What a time.

[kaitou@techhub.social]

@nixCraft A 486 running linux was my first web/mail server (on a nailed dial-up line, at that).

[janantos@f.cz]

@jcnotwit @nixCraft actually i386 was my first Linux computer back in 90s.

[z3r0fox@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft It's all about the Pentiums

[windsheep@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft nooooooo

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@jcnotwit @nixCraft
Maybe Linux Mint 19.3 was the last of that distro to support 32 bits, even on a Pentium.

[webkitten@tech.lgbt]

@nixCraft This sort of planned obsolescence can not stand!

[xfranky@ioc.exchange]

@nixCraft that reminds me how I did in fact install some Linux distro on a 486 DX4/100 back in the day