This means continued security patches until at least end of 2027, so at the earliest these will be out of support in 2028.
Realistically this will be much longer into the future, as the LTS window of multiple LTS releases is likely to be extended more.
I’d be surprised if these go out of support before 2032Linux looking at Mac users being impressed with 8 years of software support.
Ha that’s cute.
You telling me I can install Bazzite on a 486?
Your typical Arch install? Steam OS? Ubuntu?
Idk what you consider “typical” but there was a 32 fork of arch…
https://gist.github.com/wjlafrance/b0d87fab147abc91804e92296f2e3ccf
And of course there’s always Gentoo
Exactly! Just because there is support for a stone age CPU in the Linux Kernel, doesn’t mean every single modern Linux compatible software is running smoothly on this.
Of course, from the Mac/Windows point of view it was the correct thing to ditch such old stuff. Because they are concerned about having a stable product that is running on modern hardware. Keeping this old stuff in, makes it more complicated to maintain their system and therefore more suspectable to errors.
Linux could only keep this support up for so long, because somewhere there where people that though it would be worth care about for 28 years. And even now it’s not over. You can modify the kernel and patch 486 support back in again on your own. So “incompatibility” doesn’t really exist with a open system. It’s just that nobody at the core kernel team will do this service for you anymore.
Well how you gonna buy a new Mac if you could get security patches for your old device
23 years after the first x64 CPU rolled off the assembly lines, Linux is still supporting it.
