• Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I don’t have a 486. I don’t know anyone who has a 486. I wouldn’t know what to do with a 486. I know full well that all versions before 7.1 will be fully usable forever and that someone would fork the kernel if they actually needed to run modern Linux on a 486.

    And still this makes me a little bit sad and angry.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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      7 days ago

      The only people I see doing anything with a 486 are pointless challenge videos getting something modern to run on old hardware for kicks. Tiny population.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      More like great great great grandpa, realistically. I think it’s absolutely commendable that anyone has maintained compatibility with it for this long. Expected? Hell no. Deserved? Arguable on either side. But mighty damn admirable that the effort was made.

      The speed of tech in many sectors tends to just blast away and leave everything behind and say screw it, keep up of fuck off. The classic desktop architecture seems to be where they’ve held off of that mentality the longest and with most integrity.