I’ve got an old Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 (I believe) that I’m wondering if I can install the new Lubuntu on. The CPU info follows. I’m sorry — I can’t work out it if it is 64-bit capable, of whether I need to install a 32-bit OS on it. Thanks for any help with this!
-Processor-
Name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz
Family, model, stepping : 6, 13, 8 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 1024kb
Frequency : 1393.30MHz
BogoMIPS : 2786.59
Byte Order : Little Endian
-Features-
FDIV Bug : no
HLT Bug : no
F00F Bug : no
Coma Bug : no
Has FPU : yes
-Cache-
Cache information not available
-Capabilities-
fpu : Floating Point Unit
vme : Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de : Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse : Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc : Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr : Model Specific Registers
pae : Physical Address Extensions
mce : Machine Check Architeture
cx8 : CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic : Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
mtrr : Memory Type Range Registers
pge : Page Global Enable
mca : Machine Check Architecture
cmov : Conditional Move instruction
clflush : Cache Line Flush instruction
dts : Debug Store
acpi : Thermal Monitor and Software Controlled Clock
mmx : MMX technology
fxsr : FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
sse : SSE instructions
sse2 : SSE2 (WNI) instructions
ss : Self Snoop
tm : Thermal Monitor
pbe : Pending Break Enable
up : smp kernel running on up
bts : Branch Trace Store
Try Lubuntu 18.04.5 32 bits version.
Your CPU have power enough to browse, videoplayback and others softwares.
HAVE AN BIG CHANCE THAT YOUR COMPUTER WILL RUN LUBUNTU 18.04.5.
Even then you may not get a great experience anyway. It’ll run for sure, but maybe task you want to do on it may be limited.
I tested Lubuntu 18.04.5 LTS on a
hp d220mt (dr159p), (celeron 2ghz, 1gb, 82845G/GL Brookdale-G/GE (i915))
and mine reports itself as Pentium 4 family (not Pentium III) in lscpu, and yet the performance of mine was less than pentium M laptops and pentium 4 desktop I also test with.
Yes Lubuntu 18.04.5 was perfectly usable, but I also stream a youtube video in testing, and here the hp d220 celeron kept pausing, where my pentium M & pentium 4 laptops/desktops do not. There are a number of things (like streaming vids I’d not want to use it for). Celeron’s have higher clock speed (2GHz used for marketing is faster than any pentium M I use), but less where it really matters.
It may also be i586 class, where i686 class of cpu is required for Lubuntu 18.04
Which is a wee shame!