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 ...

Dev reckons the Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux is one of their ‘greatest hacks of all time.’ ...

picked this up at the local shop today, thought you'd like it, and may be able to offer some insight to it.<BR><BR>Hewlett Packard NetSever 4/66 LF<BR>486 DX2 66<BR>1 gig SCSI HDD<BR>3Com 509B ISA ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux ...

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 ...

[Yeo Kheng Meng] had a question: what is the oldest x86 processor that is still supported by a modern Linux kernel? Furthermore, is it actually possible to use modern software with this processor?