The practical impact of the end of 486 support will be negligible; the number of modern Linux distributions that use the kernel’s 486 support is negligible.

It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux ...

The Intel i486, originally released in 1989, will no longer have kernel support on Linux 7.1, as Phoronix reports. Of course, anyone still hanging onto an i486 can always stick to a long-term support ...

While we’ve seen a variety of different efforts to bring Linux support to the M1 Macs, official support could be coming sooner than expected. As reported by Phoronix, the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle ...

Google has committed to a four-year support lifetime for its Linux kernel forks, starting with kernel 6.6. Android devices utilize the Linux kernel and need to be periodically updated to receive fixes ...

In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

I want to love Linux as a desktop OS, I really do.

What can you do now? Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it's not the same thing. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. CentOS Stream, however, "tracks just ahead of a current ...

Pirates on Windows might make life harder for gamers on Linux.