The Download: Linux 486 retirement, DeepSeek v4, TanStack AI & more

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Welcome back to The Download. This week, we cover France's massive move to migrate its government ministries to Linux for digital sovereignty. We also look at Canonical's push for local AI inference in Ubuntu and the impressive cost cuts in the new DeepSeek v4 release. Plus, we explore TanStack AI's new framework-agnostic toolkit and bid farewell to Intel 486 support in the Linux kernel. Let us know which update caught your eye in the comments!

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— CHAPTERS —

00:00 Welcome to the Download
00:33 France migrates to Linux
01:24 Ubuntu plans local inference
02:16 DeepSeek v4 lowers costs
03:26 TanStack AI toolkit alpha
04:34 Linux drops Intel 486 support
05:42 Outro

— RESOURCES —

France
French government digital agency (DINUM): https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/ (homepage; specific press release URL not located, link to homepage is safest)
TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
The Next Web: https://thenextweb.com/news/france-linux-windows-migration-digital-sovereignty
Ubuntu
https://www.developer-tech.com/news/ubuntu-ai-features-local-inference/
Canonical community: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130
DeepSeek V4
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-llm-preview-open-source-ai-competition-china.html
https://venturebeat.com/technology/deepseek-v4-arrives-with-near-state-of-the-art-intelligence-at-1-6th-the-cost-of-opus-4-7-gpt-5-5
TanStack AI
TanStack AI homepage: https://tanstack.com/ai/latest
Alpha announcement: https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-ai-alpha-your-ai-your-way
InfoQ background: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/tanstack-ai-sdk/
Intel 486
Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486
The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/patch_to_end_i486_support/

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