| Ingo Molnar, one of the main developers of the Linux kernel, has disabled support for Intel 386 processors with which the history of this kernel and the operating system that was created from it began. |
The 386-bit i32 architecture that was introduced in 1985 was one of the most popular among users, and in fact the 80386 processors continued to be manufactured until relatively recently, September 2007.
The kernel developers have decided that it was time to remove support for these processors, and specifically for the older 386-DX and 386-SX. This allows to improve the work cycle in the nucleus, since according to Molnar's words, "its complexity has caused extra work when we wanted to make modifications in the primitives of the SMP support for years".
That means that as Molnar pointed out, your old PCs with 386 DX33 processors from the year 91 will not be able to work with the most modern kernels from now on. Linus Torvalds himself fully agreed with the decision: 'I am not sentimental. It was time«.
Good to know, I don't have it, but sometimes they ask me to install a linux distribution, Greetings
That's good, I have adjusted the kernel every time I have installed openSUSE
You're welcome, champion! Hug! Paul.