The practical impact of the end of 486 support will be negligible; the number of modern Linux distributions that use the kernel’s 486 support is negligible.

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 ...

As a Linux user for the last couple of years, I can't say I'm upset by this. There are 18 years worth of Linux iterations out there somewhere that someone can download to run on their 18 year old 486 ...

In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

I want to love Linux as a desktop OS, I really do.