Ubuntu 12.04 vs Xubuntu 12.04 vs Kubuntu 12.04 vs Lubuntu 12.04: Results

Check out also my latest comparison:


Ubuntu 12.10 vs Kubuntu 12.10 vs Xubuntu 12.10 vs Lubuntu 12.10


As mentioned in my previous post, tonight I tested all the Ubuntu sisters on my PC from pen drive. Specifications of my HP PC are:

Processor: 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4, single core
RAM: 1 GB DDR
HDD: IDE 250 GB
Build: 2003

A tabular view of the results is given below:

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Linux 12.04 LTS adventure tonight: Ubuntu, Xubuntu & Kubuntu

Tonight I am trying out Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu 12.04 LTS on my desktop. These are the beta2 versions. I am narrowing down on what distro to install in my HP 2003 era desktop with 1 GB DDR RAM and 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 processor. It still has enough life to pull off the modern linux OSs.

Already, as mentioned in my previous blog post, I have installed Xubuntu 12.04 LTS in my Asus Eee PC 1101HA

[SOLVED] Precise Pangolin: Asus eee PC Issue with GMD500 & display problem with half screen display

For quite sometime I was trying to load Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta1 and beta2 to my Asus Eee PC 1101HA with 1.34 Ghz Intel Atom processor and 1 GB DDR3 RAM. Somehow the distro would get installed but not boot to a GUI due to GMD500.

Either it won't  load or even if it loads the display would be half the screen.

Finally I found a way to get around. Once the black screen comes press Ctrl - Alt - F2,

glib lotus notes java memory corruption

Today i updated some packets related to IBM lotus notes and a problem with libraries caused a great and long investigation process to have lotus notes back.


I tried lot of things: reinstalling, purging the packets, installing the same version again... nothing worked. Today i found the solution here.


It says:

[...] After some research I found the problem: libnuma. If this lib exists in the system the Notes Client loads data forever. [...]


the solution is:
apt-get remove libnuma1





Standard disclosure: this is my opinion and not necessarily that of my employer or anyone else.

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin LTS: Review of the next gen OS

Well, I was pretty much disheartened with Ubuntu 11.10 not really clicking with my 9 year old PC. It's specs were impressive in 2003 but not now. 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 single core processor with 1 GB DDR RAM and 200 GB IDE HDD - nothing to boast of today.

Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity won't load on my system. So, I had to be contended with Ubuntu 11.04 (which ran real smooth in classic mode!). Today I

Decision Trees with r project on Linux

Chaid Trees with R Project on Linux

Start R and install Partykit:
$ R
> install.packages("partykit")

On a command line download the chaid sources:
svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/chaid/

$ cd chaid
$ R CMD INSTALL pkg/

On R:
> library("CHAID")
Loading required package: partykit
Loading required package: grid



Chaid project:
http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=343

Search for the perfect Linux distribution for my NotePad is over

Finally I found the perfect distribution for my Asus EeePC 1101HAB. Ubuntu 11.04 was performing kind of ok there, though a tad bit slow. But when I upgraded to 11.10, the hell broke loose. First, my NetBook won't boot to gnome 3, then I downgraded it to gnome 2, it would boot to text version where manually I had to start lightdm. Unity made it very slow and I started thinking of buying a new