[kwlug-disc] Maintained distro for very old CPUs

[Paul Nijjar]

Honestly, I am kind of done with OpenWRT, but it might be worth a
shot.

Most of the distros on that page are either dead or have failed the
"not updated since..." test. Zeroshell is an exception, but I actually
want a distro with a shell.

The best resource I have found so far appears to be this:
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1811/which-linux-or-bsd-distributions-do-still-support-i386-i486-or-i586-cpus

The Linux kernel dropped support for i386 in version 3.7. It is not
clear to me whether this extends to i486. 

- Paul

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:58:36PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> If you don't need a full fledged distro, and the packages are available in
> the repo, then OpenWRT seems like an option:
> 
> https://openwrt.org/toh/pcengines/alix
> 
> There is also a list of distros that ran these boards. Perhaps some
> of them are still viable
> 
> https://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm

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