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There is always netbsd, which prioritizes portability.

Whether you like it or not, linux is a commercial operating system primarily designed and built by people working for commercial entities, to solve commercial problems.

Nobody in the commercial world is running 486, and supporting old CPUs makes it harder to maintain and build features for modern hardware that commercial entities use.

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It looks like NetBSD and FreeDOS are the last major operating systems that support 486s. Even OpenBSD and Minix require at least a Pentium processor.

What does "commercial" have to do with anything? As a personal user, I have absolutely no need for 486, and I doubt anyone outside of extremely narrow group of people digging old hardware does. 486 was a history when I was a kid, and I am not even remotely young anymore.

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