Linux Nukes 386 Support 464
sfcrazy writes with news that Linus pulled a patch by Ingo Molnar to remove support for the 386 from the kernel. From Ingo's commit log: "Unfortunately there's a nostalgic cost: your old original 386 DX33 system from early 1991 won't be able to boot modern Linux kernels anymore. Sniff."
Linus adds: "I'm not sentimental. Good riddance."
Dammit (Score:5, Funny)
I'm forking Linux right now to support this under-appreciated processor.
Time to fork (Score:5, Funny)
I'll fork the kernal and keep the 386 dream alive, just as soon as the checkout is complete on my blazing fast 28.8k modem.
Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
I remember furiously masturbating to low resolution pornography on my 386.
640x480 is perfectly wankable if you ask me...
Which nobody does.
Why don't you call me anymore??
Re:Time to fork (Score:4, Funny)
Bearded UNIX admin: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
ASCII porn on the line printer.
Re:On noes! The satellites! (Score:5, Funny)
Tanenbaum, is that you?
Re:So... (Score:0, Funny)
Ultimately, Allah.
Re:Dammit (Score:5, Funny)
If you HAVE a 386, don't you also REALLY want a pre-2.0 kernel, anyway? :-)
Real men run .99, and wait 16 hours for their kernel to compile.
(Of course, that was 1/4 the time it took X to compile ...)
Re:Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
ASCII porn on the line printer.
Don't knock it, man... it was good practice for not being a two pump chump with the ladies. When it takes 15 minutes of watching the paper scroll to get to the good part, you learned to take your time ...
Re:What was the last version which actually did? (Score:3, Funny)
I had a 386/40 with 8MB and got it to run two instances of Quake with heavy swapping in Linux. I think it even got 30 seconds per frame since it was using an emulated math coprocessor.
Re:Dammit (Score:3, Funny)
Good luck getting Windows 8 to run on your 386.
Re:What was the last version which actually did? (Score:5, Funny)
30 seconds per frame
I see what you did there...
Re:Time to fork (Score:3, Funny)
Oh man - another show-off!
Look - I don't mind if you are happy with your shiny super high speed modem, but will you keep your tone a bit down and feel a bit for us oldies that are still on a Bell 101 100 baud modem will you?
Incredible how far someone will go to peek both fingers in the eyes of some less wealthy helpless underdogs... :-(
Re:Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
You kids and your artificial porn. Back in my day, we had to have sex with real women. And we liked it!
Re:Fond Memories (Score:5, Funny)
ASCII? An extravagance. Real men had an Altair 8800 that flashed its lights suggestively.
Re:Dammit (Score:4, Funny)
...or a spinoff from a band that sucks.
(for the clueless: I have their entire discography.)
Re:Dammit (Score:3, Funny)
You would have a really hard time maintaining it. The stuff that was removed allows them to change a whole mess of things that will become incompatible to backport from
People still using 386's probably don't update very often.
Re:Dammit (Score:3, Funny)
Why? 640 KB should be enough for anybody.
Hello. Your name is Ingo Molnar. (Score:4, Funny)
You killed my CPU. Prepare to die. [imdb.com]