Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's generally due to lack of CPU features. The reason 386 was dropped from all OS (and Microsoft did it in 1997 with NT 4) was pretty simple: it lacks the instructions the 486 added that make memory ...

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 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 ...

The chip that was originally released 37 years ago in 1989 will no longer have kernel support on Linux 7.1, as Phoronix reports. Of course, anyone still hanging onto an i486 can always stick to a long ...

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 ...

Out of curiosity, what is the oldest computer ars readers still actively use? Mine is an old Intel core duo system that powers a hobby cnc machine on the attic. In one of many boxes there, an IBM ...