If you are running an i486 CPU, you will want to read this.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

If you are running an i486 CPU, you will want to read this. 

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-i486-cpu-support-removal/

#linux

[oldcoder@dansu.org]

This 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?

[steinarb@mastodon.social]

Retired 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@retro-gaiden.com]

@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...!

NetBSD/i386 Supported Hardware

(www.netbsd.org)

[x3lz@mastodon.social]

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