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Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. (Announce)

posted by bocke, 20.05.2025, 18:14

> I though 486 was dropped many years ago but maybe I mixed it with Debian
> distro support that AFAIK needs at least 686 now. And I think most of
> distros are x64-only now so one may still compile 586 kernel but would be
> coupled with very few distros that still supports x86-32...

Yes. Most distros are i686+ nowadays. If they even suport x86-32. There a few exceptions though. Gentoo has both i486 and i686+ versions. Slackware (32-bit) is by default i586 with some packages being i686.

Some distros that still support x86-32:
* Slackware
* Void Linux
* Gentoo
* Alpine Linux
* Antix
* MX Linux
* Q4OS
* Puppy Linux
* Damn Small Linux 2024
* Porteus
* Elive
* SparkyLinux (only minimal-cli and minimal-gui)
* Debian (but to be phased out in the future)

Complete thread:

• Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 17.05.2025, 22:12
  • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - Oso2k, 17.05.2025, 22:25
    • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 18.05.2025, 02:56
      • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - ecm, 18.05.2025, 03:29
        • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 18.05.2025, 21:19
  • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - RayeR, 19.05.2025, 20:30
    • Linux 6.15 drops 80486 support. - bocke, 20.05.2025, 18:14