<![CDATA[If you are running an i486 CPU, you will want to read this.]]>If you are running an i486 CPU, you will want to read this. 

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The Linux Kernel is Finally Letting Go of i486 CPU Support

The support remained in the Linux kernel all these years after every other major platform dropped it.

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NetBSD even support Amiga48k...!

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NetBSD/i386 Supported Hardware

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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.

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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?]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dansu.org/objects/f9c2ef37-17f1-4529-9efe-c4dc396a8092https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dansu.org/objects/f9c2ef37-17f1-4529-9efe-c4dc396a8092Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:32:23 GMT