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- jsully, on 09/29/2008, -3/+591. Setting a static IP isn't practical for laptops
2. Who uses a graphical firewall, and why is it going to be slower than IPtables?
3. Disabling unused services - the only good suggestion on this list
4. Getting rid of the 30k splash screen isn't going to save any time.
5. Default boot mode is already concurrent as of 7.10
6. Disabling TTYs is a nonsensical suggestion that doesn't save you any sort of real resources.
I stopped reading around there. - Michas, on 09/29/2008, -5/+36Isn't it fast as it is already?
- diggerpleez, on 09/29/2008, -0/+22Buried for all the reinstalls that are going to happen today after brand new linux users start removing services, jack up their installations, and won't know how to bail themselves out.
- rayefrenzy, on 09/29/2008, -4/+25Remove a splash screen? *eyeroll*
- lsandberg, on 09/29/2008, -1/+17I feel like ive read this article like five times on digg, and each time I'm consistently disappointed by the lack of any data to back up these claims. Although each of his suggestions should logically speed things up or reduce cpu/memory usage, in the real world benchmarking statistics are important.
For example, disabling ttys: of course it makes sense to get rid off applications you're not using but a few ttys that you don't use anyway is going to save you what like 5 megs of ram tops, and that would be swapped out anyway.
Show me the benchmarks, lets root this in a little science ("it works bitches"). - Virgule, on 09/29/2008, -0/+11I, for one, will consider a computer 'fast enough; when it boot faster then my monitor can lit up.
- leerayIG88, on 09/29/2008, -1/+12I added some flaming stickers on the side of my computer. This will make it faster...
- bullox, on 09/29/2008, -3/+14This article is geared towards those using old hardware as mentioned in the description.
- LostOverThere, on 09/29/2008, -1/+10Whats wrong with using the commend line?
- alokrsx, on 09/29/2008, -2/+11Those things aren't really necessary...
- joebaloney, on 09/29/2008, -2/+11I doubt anyone would find noticeable improvement for their investment of 2 or 3 hours of ***** up a perfectly good Ubuntu install.
- shotgunefx, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8It's all relative, for my carpc, I want it to boot as fast as possible.
If you want to optimize startup, bootchart (http://www.bootchart.org/) is a good place to start. - MWeather, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8#2 is not needed. Firestarter is a frontend for iptables. Removing it merely makes updating iptables rules more painful. At the same time, you shouldn't be running it unless you need to change the config. It's still "ON" even when it's closed.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
Take make's advice, stop. - kahrn, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8Somebody did an extensive list of what does and does not improve boot time before (with evidence to back it all up) http://lightningcrash.blogspot.com/2007/08/making- ...
- Maratonda, on 09/29/2008, -1/+9Bootup time in english has nothing to do with games.
- weizbox, on 09/29/2008, -1/+8Who cares how the steps are done? It's just a VERY simple set of instructions. It's just copy and paste for the most part.. They prob should have just made a script :)
- xutopia, on 09/29/2008, -4/+11It is faster but it doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.
- stuffradio, on 09/29/2008, -1/+7I'll bury you for bringing up topics that are not relevant to the article.
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6I guess your nick is just something you read on a cereal box?
- arobar, on 09/29/2008, -2/+8Switching to a desktop environment with just as much bloat will in no way speed up your PC.
- Shady77, on 09/29/2008, -1/+7Wow. If you know what you're doing, you don't need this article.
If you don't know what you're doing, this article has just precisely enough information to lead you to totally ***** up your system. - johndavidjack, on 09/29/2008, -0/+5@Isandberg
I'm actually working on a hard drive Russian Roulette script, it's gonna be awesome... - lsandberg, on 09/29/2008, -2/+7a script!
a script written by some random guy with a blog that will go and hack away at vital system settings related. that sounds like a great idea until a typo trashes grub and i can't boot anymore. - amoeba, on 09/29/2008, -1/+5how to speed up ubuntu:
tape your computer to a skateboard and push it down a hill - Peterix, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4What the article mentions is mostly crap. Adopting something like this : http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2008/04/09/gentoo-b ... would be much better. That would need some serious restructuring of Ubuntu though...
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4This is starting to feel like Windows. All those tweak articles that are 90% inaccurate, based on rumors, half-truths and whole lies. Christ, I just felt a shiver.
- oxygenws, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4The most efficient way is compile customized kernels.
- perogi21, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Gesundheit!
- worminater, on 09/29/2008, -4/+8never used a netbook have you.
- Wasyu, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4I can suggest some better tips one can do to speed Ubuntu up .
1. replace Gnome with XFCE or enlightenment heck even KDE is faster then gnome if you turn off the visual effects.
You also might want to look into FWM95 and fluxbox as a light WM.
2. replace the default and crappy media player with Mplayer with a GUI,Xine or VLC.
3. Get the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacture's web site and install the kernel headers as the installer may need them.
If your using just the Vesa X server everything is going to seem kinda slow even if all you have is a crappy intel video card.
4. customize the kernel but do not delete the entry for the old one in case you make dead kernel you may have to reinstall the X drivers and any other binary drivers after building a new Kernel.
5. Look into Koffice,Abiword,and Gnumric instead of Open Office for small documents. - mahadiga, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3http://wiki.dennyhalim.com/ubuntu-minimal-desktop
- rob263, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3What about using preload and prelink - will that make much difference. I'm tempted to try it on my LAMP server, since it's using CGI perl, and thinking that it might speed up loading perl (which gets done on every request). Any advice?
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3The point of Ubuntu is not the GUI. The point of Gentoo is not the command line.
If you don't like the command line, just stick to the GUI wherever you are.
It's much easier to write about command line changes than GUI changes. That's the beauty of the command line.
Try to cut and paste a screen shot to make it work. - strangeman, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3I agree. Lots of stuff in this guide is really bad. Disabling journaling is just stupid. Not writing accesstimes on the other hand really saved me some time. Disabling usplash saved me 15secs with my Laptop. The default boot is NOT concurrent. 7.10 just introduced Upstart but didn't have its concurrency enabled by default because of quite some race conditions (e.g. dbus/hal). Concurrency does speed up the boot (6secs in my case) but is still quite buggy.
- diggerpleez, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2This wasn't an indictment against new users, but rather the advice. My first few months of fully converting to Linux around 2005 were pretty turbulent. I used to think the only fix was to reinstall, which I did more often than I would like to admit.
- santasing, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Definitely, XFCE is way lighter than either Gnome or KDE. I have just found KDE to be faster than Gnome.
- svivian, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2you jacked off to this article?
- Vadi0, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2"how to gimp ubuntu so without features it's fast" is how this looks to me.
- tocsy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2jsully:
I'm running 8.04 and concurrency is not set as the default on my machine. I'm not going to mess with it though, primarily because I have no idea what I'm doing. - tripzero, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2upstart was introduced in 7.04
- strangeman, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1he just got it from xkcd: http://xkcd.com/149/
- kd420, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Whatever, bailing them out is the government's job, let them go hog wild and completely destroy their system.
/s - cheeseplease, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1It's alot slower than XP for me. That's why I'm on the lookout for a new distro.
- Megatog615, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Man, I wish I knew what those tweaks mean. data=writeback? How do I know that's not potentially dangerous?
Also, this looks like the author ripped tutorials off of ubuntu-forums.org and put them into one big article. - Technopundit, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2Put the install CD in a skeet launcher.
- MattBD, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I rolled my own custom version based on the Minibuntu ISO and with Fluxbox as the window manager. I still use Ubuntu and Kubuntu as my desktop systems, but this one with Fluxbox is a very handy fast live CD as it's a lot smaller than the normal Ubuntu ISO. If you're reasonably comfortable doing most things from the command line it works well. I also created a couple of others (one uses LXDE, the other IceWM) to try on my EeePC, but they didn't work out too well on there.
- mahadiga, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Not desirable if you are targeting Business Users.
- stuffradio, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1No, it's even less relevant.
This article is about speed... not playing games on Linux. - OCPaul, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1i guess u got excited about my comment?
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