The practical impact of the end of 486 support will be negligible; the number of modern Linux distributions that actually use the kernel’s 486 support is negligible.
Kernel 7.0 didn't need to be a big deal. It went ahead and became one anyway.
It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux ...
The Intel i486, originally released 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-term support ...
AntiX 26 "Stephen Kapos" is the newly updated version of antiX, based on last year's Debian 13 "Trixie" release. There are a lot of Debian-based meta-distributions to choose from, but antiX is more ...
In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has started to test the distribution of Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 kernels via Windows Update. When Microsoft announced WSL2, they ...