Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> writes:

I don't know if the software floating point code is still in the
kernel, so likely at least a '486 might be needed for "modern"
kernels.

 
386 support was removed in 2012 or so. 486 support has only just been
removed this year:
 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@kernel.org/

The patch was submitted, but doesn't appear to have been merged yet,
based on the mainline kernel commit log. Kernel v6.15 actually
included a patch that fixed 486 support, which had been
accidentally broken earlier.

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