For a 486 I'd use NetBSD with ctwm.
On support, it's odd no one tested Alpine Linux on a 486, necause Alpine will run perfectly on it. No, Nix, no complex setup, a huge repo of packages.
Alpine Linux with a patched X for VLB/ISA:
On support, it's odd no one tested Alpine Linux on a 486, necause Alpine will run perfectly on it. No, Nix, no complex setup, a huge repo of packages.
Alpine Linux with a patched X for VLB/ISA:
Nix is used to preserve development environment of linux kernel. Without nix, setup would be much, much more complex.
Thank you for info about avc-edge-linux. Going to take a look :).