Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Oh Gawd - Now MX Linux "Security Verification" - NO !!! Date: 21 Aug 2026 18:18:04 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1161o3s$1rflc$3@dont-email.me> <1162oap$26tip$7@dont-email.me> <_46cnQQXs59TgRj3nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <116490o$2l1f7$3@dont-email.me> <7_CcnWrL6eO9xxv3nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <116711f$3hihn$3@dont-email.me> <4lHhS.41288$wI58.20247@fx44.iad> <1169ftv$9uiu$1@dont-email.me> <1169lo3$akfv$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5BW/hx2A8eGjVAYWd4qLoQBCfH6Im7QDXTBnAFbQZSwVhltbfQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:m+RVonarW8kRw/+kKj84yDzqNmE= sha256:2Dl+5UywDqsXo7DsLxG8Gf5CymDGSSFo1y+X8gs9lU0= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:90296 On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:01:38 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > TJ wrote: >>On 2026-08-20 22:30, c186282 wrote: >>> >>>   32-bit versions of anything are RARE now alas ... >> >>Mageia 10, recently released, has an i686 version. It doesn't have >>everything the 64-bit version has, because a lot of upstream support for >>32-bit has disappeared, but it IS supported. > > I wonder what they'll do when the first kernel appears that can't be > compiled on x86 https://tinyurl.com/4w57s6uy https://www.techradar.com/pro/linux-pulls-support-for-ancient-cpu- unsurprisingly-linus-torvald-says-there-is-zero-real-reason-to-keep-a-37- year-old-intel-486-cpu-going "Ingo Molnar, a long-time Linux kernel developer, authored a patch that eliminates key configuration options related to the 486 CPU, including CONFIG_M486SX, CONFIG_M486, and CONFIG_MELAN. These changes, once merged, will prevent users from building kernel images that target the 486 architecture." It's been discussed for some time but the 7.1 kernel drops 486 and 586. I assume that means you couldn't compile 7.1 on a 486 with an older kernel.