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Good.

Removing tech debt is important

I feel like at this point they could’ve waited more years just for bragging rights.

(I don’t mean to say 18 years is not brag worthy, but 20 rolls off the tongue better.)

Well, actually... The LTS kernel with longest support before 6.15 is 6.1. It will be supported until December 2027 [1] which is a few months over 20 years after the last 486 CPU [2].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061009060120/http://developer.... as linked in the Ars Technica article

Cool, we’ll be able to say “Linux supports hardware for over two decades after it’s stopped being shipped”!

Thanks for the info, btw. (:

Agreed, if you're running a 486 machine the least of your problems is running the latest Linux kernel.

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