More than 36 years after the release of the 486 and 18 years after Intel stopped making them, leaders of the Linux kernel ...

[Yeo Kheng Meng] had a question: what is the oldest x86 processor that is still supported by a modern Linux kernel? Furthermore, is it actually possible to use modern software with this processor?

The x86 processor family is for the time being, the most ubiquitous type of processor in the PC world, and has been ... you can build a brand new 486 machine with new hardware that will run ...