On Thu May 9, 2013 06:27:46 AM David Goodenough wrote:
> On Thursday 09 May 2013, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > On Thu May 9, 2013 05:30:48 AM Andre wrote:
> > > Ubuntu drops support for i586 Pentium CPU. Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) is the
> > > last supported version. Are there any other Linux distros with i586
> > > (Pentium) support and end-of-life beyond 2015?
> > 
> > I'm going to have to say Debian.
> 
> Actually Debian dropped i586 support a while ago.  It does have i486,
> but not i586.

Probably because it was superflous. You don't really need i486, i586 and i686. 
The difference in code generation for linux probably isn't all that different 
between 486 ans 586.

So long as you support i486, you support i586.

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