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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It says a lot about linux that them dropping support for an over 20 year old CPU is a big anouncement

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's apparently the Pentium 1 and older, so those chips were discontinued in 1999. Almost 26 years old.

Ditching i686 could be a problem for people running 32-bit stuff on modern hardware, though. I expect that'll hang around for a while yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There were still new 486 compatible chips being released up until about 2010.

They released a 486sx (no FPU) in 2007.