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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...