A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list post. That an old and ...

Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In a Linux patch ...

One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to ...

Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. 486s are old. Very, very old. Intel discontinued the 386 chip family in 2007. True, some ...

Linux kernel developers have removed support for the Intel 486 CPU Linus Torvalds says there is zero real reason to maintain 486 compatibility Ingo Molnar authored patches eliminating 486-related ...

Linux 7.1 begins sunsetting built-in support for i486 CPUs. Linus says it's time to leave i486 behind as compatibility glue wastes dev time and causes issues. Keep using an LTS kernel or older distro ...

Linux 7.1 is lining up a change which starts sunsetting built-in support for Intel’s i486 CPUs, the sort of kit old enough to have nostalgia for dial-up. Phoronix spotted a patch queued for 7.1 by ...

RIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While Microsoft stopped supporting you with the release of Windows XP in 2001, Linux kept you alive and well for ...

It has been revealed that Linux has begun ending support for the Intel 486 processor, which was released in 1989. Linux developer Linus Torvalds said, 'There is no reason to waste a single second on ...

Because there is a lot of "compatibility glue" in the Linux kernel – is what Ingo Molnar calls it –, the prominent developer now wants to get rid of some of it: Support for x86 processors of the 486 ...

How many 486s had 32M or more RAM? I think I had 32M in my Cyrix 686, but that was long ago and close to the end of the 486 era (almost all due to AMD's 133MHz or more 486 clone). Maybe they could ...