To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die and a time for Linux to discontinue support for Intel's 27-years old, 32-bit 386 ...

If you're the type of person that not only heavily uses the Linux platform, but also has a bunch of very old processors lying around for everyday use, you'll be disappointed to know that Linux has ...

If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms, you’ll have read that [Linus Torvalds] developed his first kernel for his Intel 386-based computer.

The “cheap” and “easy” way in about an hour! A question that pop’s up from time to time is “I somehow ended up with an archaic old laptop / computer, can it run Linux?” Well of course it can, but that ...

Intel’s 80386 turned 40 this week. Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor — better known as the i386 — was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA ...

It is just for speed/performance purposes...<BR><BR>As far as I know, programs compiled on/with i386 and or i486 will work with any i586 or i686 systems (Thanks to Intel's promise of backwards ...