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    Linux 7.1 beendet endgültig die Unterstützung für Intels 37 Jahre alten 486-Prozessor

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    2. awkisopen on

      > There’s a proposed change for Linux version 7.1 that, _if merged,_

      Ah, an article about nothing!

    3. squish042 on

      486?? Now that’s a name I have not heard in a long time…a long time…

    4. Smith6612 on

      An impressive support cycle. If someone still needs modern Linux running on a 486, Linux is at least open source. Patches can be backported. 

    6. megas88 on

      In before someone figures out how to run 7.1 on it with doom or running 7.1 inside of doom running on 7

    7. sven_bohikus on

      My 486 Linux rig ran Slackware 0.9 and hosted a waffle bbs picking up mail and news by UUCP. That was a *very* long time ago. Good times. Shame to see it slip out but it’s about time.

    8. Scared-Funny-9894 on

      I think it’s unfair that linux can still run on 486 up until now, but not my windows 11 🤪

    11. unwashed_masses on

      U making me feel ooooold. This post brings me back to me buying a 287 coprocessor for me 286 on „Computer Shopper“. For context the technology revolution over these years has been „same shit different AMD Intel Nvidia ARM day“ except for the original iMac, iPhone and Motorola Droid… Oh and the ESP32. The real revolution of course has been Linux. Watching how the confluence of Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman democratized technology has been a joy.

      May the young kids follow, improve, refine and keep power to the people

    12. Mindless_Listen7622 on

      I first deployed Slackware in 1993 on a i486SX running at 25 Mhz with a math co-processor. It was my first computer and I bought it for freshman year as a CS student at Illinois with scholarship award money. I don’t think many folks own a 486 anymore, so this is probably for the best.

      Because of my early adoption of Linux, and my work experience in the Engineering Workstation Labs on „real“ Unixes like Solaris, AIX and HPUX, it eventually turned into a career as a Unix and later Linux sysadmin. No regrets!

    14. MicrowaveDonuts on

      My old mentor built some of the first rigs for the stadium sky cams. He would only build on 486s. There was nothing between the application and the clock. It could hit milliseconds accuracy, no problem. Pentiums messed it all up. I’m sure it was more efficient, it would also drift all over the place.

      He built on 486s for motion control rigs for at least 20 years. So long that he could also attest that they were still solid long after pentiums started failing. They built those chips to
      run many times longer than the world needed them.

    15. Darkroomist on

      The first linux box I built was RedHat 5.1 in 1998/9 on an old Zeos 486 I upgraded with a dx4 100mhz processor. I could run 4 desktops and thought it was awesome. Though it did take me about a week to put a Netscape icon on the desktop that actually launched Netscape when you clicked it. 🤭

    17. LiteratureMindless71 on

      Damn….remembering my very first build. Intel 486-DX2-50……OVERDRIVE

    19. throw6w6 on

      Damn, with current prices for modern stuff, this was going to be my next build!

    20. No-Contract9167 on

      Honestly this is a healthy sign, not neglect. One underrated cost in kernel maintenance is keeping weird ancient compatibility paths testable even when almost nobody can validate them on real hardware anymore. If someone truly needs 486 support for industrial gear, the open source path still exists, but the mainline kernel should not have to carry every historical edge case forever.

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