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		kelnos on July 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date... Kernel support for 386 was dropped recently, but 486 and above are fine. I think many distros have probably dropped 486 support, though; someone upthread mentions that Debian is 686 and above only now.

MBCook on July 7, 2020 | [–]

That’s probably where I got the idea. Debian is usually one of the last distros to make a move like that too since they’re conservative.

anthk on July 7, 2020 | [–]

Slackware may still work on 486.

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