What Operating System Would Run Best On The Pentium M?

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What Operating System Would Run Best On The Pentium M?

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I Have A Pentium M I Recently Saved From An Old D600 I Had That Broke And I'm Wondering What Operating Systems Will Run Well On It? I'm New To Using Older Cpus If anyone has any suggestions on what I should run on it would be much appreciated (problem solved)
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    Re: What Would Run Good On A Pentium M?

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    Win XP or earlier ?
    any Linux LXDE ?

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    I Don't Know Much About The Pentium M Or What It Can Natively Run Ive Not Really Use A Cpu This Old Before (Any Suggestions?)
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      use freaking google

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      sorry if I miss understood and I will try google and see what I can find
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        I Think I Might Try Windows XP On This And What I Can Do With It Also Thanks For The Help Everyone I'm Pretty New Here So it Help Alot To Know There Are Members WIlling To Help Newbies Like Me Out Thanks -Longhorn Pro
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          Re: What Operating System Would Run Best On The Pentium M?

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          Longhorn Pro wrote:
          Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:25 pm
          I Have A Pentium M I Recently Saved From An Old D600 I Had That Broke And I'm Wondering What Operating Systems Will Run Well On It? I'm New To Using Older Cpus If anyone has any suggestions on what I should run on it would be much appreciated (problem solved)
          Older Windows versions or Linux. You still need a decent amount of RAM. And if you just "saved" the CPU from a laptop then probably nothing will run of it until you put it in an equipped motherboard.

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          The absolute best OS would probably be Gentoo, due to it's optimisation for lower end hardware
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          Re: What Operating System Would Run Best On The Pentium M?

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          I have experience with the Celeron M and Pentium M is basically the same thing but with more cache.
          Windows XP runs great.
          Vista and 7 run alright with Windows XP graphics driver but fairly sluggish, probably better with a SATA HDD/SSD converted to IDE.
          Unless you have a dedicated GPU, forget about Windows 8. Graphics driver will not work.
          Windows 10 build 1709 if I remember correctly won't boot but older builds will. LTSC 2015/2016 is probably the way to go (if you were to use Windows 10 for some reason.)

          As for Linux, anything that is 32bit and lightweight as possible, like Sparky Linnux, MX Linux, or anything similar really. LXDE/LXQT run well as well as basically any window manager.

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