On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@???> wrote:

> A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot
> upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to
> 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free :)

It's been a while, but I wonder if Slackware would be the Linux
alternative:

http://www.slackware.com/

There is a non-SMP (single processor) kernel mentioned here:

http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/14.2.php

I know Puppy is adamant about supporting older hardware, and there's a
Slackware-derived "Slacko Puppy":

http://puppylinux.com/