Whether you like it or not, linux is a commercial operating system primarily designed and built by people working for commercial entities, to solve commercial problems.

Nobody in the commercial world is running 486, and supporting old CPUs makes it harder to maintain and build features for modern hardware that commercial entities use.

tester756 · 1h ago

Good.

Removing tech debt is important

volemo · 25m ago

I feel like at this point they could’ve waited more years just for bragging rights.

(I don’t mean to say 18 years is not brag worthy, but 20 rolls off the tongue better.)

carlhjerpe · 26m ago

Agreed, if you're running a 486 machine the least of your problems is running the latest Linux kernel.

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