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- Redinflux, on 09/29/2008, -21/+12basically the tips amount to "make ubuntu really fast by using ubuntu command line instead of gui"
- LostOverThere, on 09/29/2008, -1/+10Whats wrong with using the commend line?
- mahadiga, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Not desirable if you are targeting Business Users.
- 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 :)
- 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. - 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!
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Absolutely incorrect.
- LostOverThere, on 09/29/2008, -1/+10Whats wrong with using the commend line?
- takatoo, on 09/29/2008, -25/+4use kubuntu instead
- arobar, on 09/29/2008, -2/+8Switching to a desktop environment with just as much bloat will in no way speed up your PC.
- mattlevesque, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Also KDE (that comes with kubuntu), from my experience, was slower than Gnome.
A good fast window manager is XFCE (comes with Xubuntu) - takatoo, on 09/29/2008, -2/+1I didn't know that :O
/s
- mattlevesque, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Also KDE (that comes with kubuntu), from my experience, was slower than Gnome.
- santasing, on 09/29/2008, -3/+3Dunno why you are being dug down. I am using Kubuntu 4.1 and the GUI at least on my computer is way snappier than Gnome.
- Wasyu, on 09/29/2008, -2/+0KDE is a little snapper then Gnome also if you are running a very limited machine such as an EeePC look into lighter WM's such as XFCE, and flux box or FWM95.
- 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.
- arobar, on 09/29/2008, -2/+8Switching to a desktop environment with just as much bloat will in no way speed up your PC.
- KhaaL, on 09/29/2008, -15/+7Removing some TTYs? Remove splash? this is 2008, our computers won't be hogged down by marginal use of cpu/ram. Otherwise, good article.
- worminater, on 09/29/2008, -4/+8never used a netbook have you.
- bullox, on 09/29/2008, -3/+14This article is geared towards those using old hardware as mentioned in the description.
- Michas, on 09/29/2008, -5/+36Isn't it fast as it is already?
- 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. - bldotueyez, on 09/29/2008, -3/+1u know us.. faster and faster... !!!!!!!!!!!!!! xD
- 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.
- 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.
- shotgunefx, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8It's all relative, for my carpc, I want it to boot as fast as possible.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/29/2008, -14/+8I thought linux was supposed to be fast just because it's not Windows......
- xutopia, on 09/29/2008, -4/+11It is faster but it doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -6/+6It IS fast because it's not Windows. But we can make it even faster. I think the point is that Linux can be made into anything you like, whereas Windows kind of limits what you can do to it without some serious reverse engineering.
Just go back to your point-and-grunt and stop saying silly things.- twiztidsinz, on 09/29/2008, -6/+2I'll take my 'point-and-grunt' Windows over 'search-for-hours-trying-to-find-a-solution-to-a-problem,-but-not-that-problem-cuz-even-though-it's-similar-to-mine,-my-solution-is-completely-different' Linux just about any day of the week.
Once they can fix some of the more glaring user interface issues (Dolphin/D3lphin is great, but is kinda buggy.. and sudo really screws it over in K/Ubuntu and Fedora (I think)), and issues with absolutely abysmal video playback (VLC and MPlayer are OK.. but each has their flaws... either ***** subtitle display or a brilliant ineptitude for going fullscreen), not to mention support for games... then I'd love to switch to Linux.
I will give you the nod that Amarok is pretty nice... though I still prefer MediaMonkey (which the developers are making an attempt to get to work on Linux). - twiztidsinz, on 09/29/2008, -1/+2Oh.. and tell me edroders...
What am I limited from doing in Windows? - edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Windows is for users who want to run their applications.
Unix is for people that want to compute, people that make applications, and people that want to solve problems.
Most people are in category 1. Fine. Be happy running your video players and games. Just STFU about which OS is better. It's like saying a wrench is better than a screwdriver. - twiztidsinz, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1YOU are the one who says its a better OS, so YOU STFU.
Believe it or not, I -LIKE- linux... I have an irrational desire to USE linux.. one which I keep finding myself asking: Why do I bother to keep trying? and constantly find myself unable to even answer WHY.
I've tried Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I found that Ubuntu and Kubuntu have a better feel and more ease-of-use to them and have faithfully given K/Ubuntu a shot in 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 and most likely, for a reason I cannot explain, give 8.10 a shot when it's finally released.
But the people like YOU assume that anyone who DOESN'T use linux never has.
The people like YOU assume that once someone tries linux, they'll never go back.
The people like YOU are the ones who spew your linux love/windows hate while metaphorically jerking yourself off to it and bashing on people who don't use it.
It's the people like you who keep linux unappealing to the masses, that perpetuate the air of 'geekness' that surrounds it and fail to make it accessible by your superior attitude.
Why don't you bother responding to valid questions (which you, yourself, brought up) about your chosen OS rather than going on the defensive and telling people to STFU and 'don't compare' after you say your OS is better and without 'limits'? - edrodgers731, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1Pshh. I'm a Mac user. :) I only use Linux at work, where the real computing gets done. I also use Windows, and have used it since version 2.
I was just reacting to your anti-Linux jab.
And I didn't say Linux was better, I said it was different.
Like I said, Linux has a purpose, and Windows has a purpose. Use whichever you like. I don't give a ***** if you use it or not, and frankly, I really wish people that don't "get it" would stop trying to shoehorn Linux into their casual computing time.
I also wouldn't mind if every idiot that bashes Linux just went away to their cozy double click world, and every Linux advocate actually tried dating for a change.
Back off man. I'm a computer scientist.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/29/2008, -6/+2I'll take my 'point-and-grunt' Windows over 'search-for-hours-trying-to-find-a-solution-to-a-problem,-but-not-that-problem-cuz-even-though-it's-similar-to-mine,-my-solution-is-completely-different' Linux just about any day of the week.
- alokrsx, on 09/29/2008, -2/+11Those things aren't really necessary...
- MacintoshMan, on 09/29/2008, -15/+9Wow, like the first guy said, "make ubuntu faster by using the command line" but the whole entire point of ubuntu is the GUI. If your a heavy command line user your most likely already using GENTOO
- perogi21, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Gesundheit!
- 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.
- 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.- dcherryholmes, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I haven't performed the tests myself, but I've heard from several different people who bootcharted their startups that usplash was eating up a lot of time and CPU. I think it has to do with a bug and the resolution not being set properly. If you want a nice easy GUI way to do that you can install startupmanager in your preferred way, which I've heard fixes it.
- arjie, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I know one thing that is similar. You know GDM? In Ubuntu 7.04 it used to do one thing to my previous HP laptop. It used to boot, then switch modes three times before getting on the right one. Every time. It was very annoying. I should have just got rid of GDM.
If usplash does anything similar, then you just won a few free seconds. - 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. - 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.
- tripzero, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2upstart was introduced in 7.04
- 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").- dropbox, 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.
- joebaloney, on 09/29/2008, -2/+10I doubt anyone would find noticeable improvement for their investment of 2 or 3 hours of ***** up a perfectly good Ubuntu install.
- CoMpUtErITGuY, on 09/29/2008, -20/+3How to make Ubuntu extremely fast
Use Windows. Fixed now.- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6I guess your nick is just something you read on a cereal box?
- rayefrenzy, on 09/29/2008, -4/+25Remove a splash screen? *eyeroll*
- Clbull, on 09/29/2008, -17/+3Its still not going to run many computer games like Windows can. Go ahead, bury me for saying the truth.
- Maratonda, on 09/29/2008, -1/+9Bootup time in english has nothing to do with games.
- Clbull, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Performance, which is what this article is about (at least according to the title it should be) IS related though.
Is this article about boot times only? No, thats why I'm burying you for that
- Clbull, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Performance, which is what this article is about (at least according to the title it should be) IS related though.
- stuffradio, on 09/29/2008, -1/+7I'll bury you for bringing up topics that are not relevant to the article.
- Clbull, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1Irrelevant? Well only a bit but not enough to bury me. Look at the article name
"How to make Ubuntu extremely fast"
Maybe I should have said that computer games on Ubuntu run much more slowly, especially through Wine, is that more relevant to you? - stuffradio, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1No, it's even less relevant.
This article is about speed... not playing games on Linux.
- Clbull, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1Irrelevant? Well only a bit but not enough to bury me. Look at the article name
- Maratonda, on 09/29/2008, -1/+9Bootup time in english has nothing to do with games.
- 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?
- mdaize, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1run perl as a daemon so that it doesnt have delay when rendering?
- 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.
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Hey, we all had to learn somewhere! How many times has that happened to you?
- 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.
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1It's a vital learning experience. Sure, most will eventually give up, but the persistent ones will become true masters. I say, hack it up. half of the fun is installing new distros anyway.
:)
- edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Hey, we all had to learn somewhere! How many times has that happened to you?
- HonestAbe, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Any "tweak" that makes the system run faster without side effects should be (and probably are) installed by default.
- 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.
- MattBD, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Most people don't need Firestarter now uFW is in Ubuntu. "On" and "Off" are all the commands most people need for the firewall.
- MWeather, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1UFW is nice, but it's command line. As easy as it is to use, there really needs to be a GUI for the average user.
- smashblu, on 09/29/2008, -7/+1That's great, but I still can't get my sound card to work.
- Zippo, on 09/29/2008, -5/+5sudo make me a sandwich
sudo and make it snappy- dropbox, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
Take make's advice, stop. - edrodgers731, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1I actually laughed at that.
- strangeman, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1he just got it from xkcd: http://xkcd.com/149/
- dropbox, on 09/29/2008, -0/+8make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
- oxygenws, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4The most efficient way is compile customized kernels.
- leerayIG88, on 09/29/2008, -1/+12I added some flaming stickers on the side of my computer. This will make it faster...
- 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. - clickwir, on 09/29/2008, -2/+1Woah! Look out! I just disabled my splash screen.... I now boot in 5 seconds instead of 136 seconds!
Not. Removing the splash screen is purely cosmetic, it won't effect speed.
Yea, I love Ubuntu, but this article is bunk. Useless.- strangeman, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1On some older Laptop-LCDs (2-3yrs) usplash won't work well (100%CPU) so booting takes like 2 or 3 minutes. Disabling it will reduce it to about 20secs which I wouldn't call useless.
- 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. - Wasyu, on 09/29/2008, -1/+0I forgot to post another thing one can do in Gnome to speed Unbuntu up turn off the preview feature in the file browser where it shows a thumbnails for pics and movies.
- darthbator, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Preload and prelink are the best suggestions there. Those ext3 tweaks IMO are not laptop powersaving/data protection friendly. Preload and prelink both help gnome and kde get up quicker (from what I have noticed) and I say those are their most worthwhile tweaks because the also include almost no user config, just install some apps and edit 1 string in a text file.
1 started browsing through some of the other stuff on the site. Some of it is quite interesting :) - OCPaul, on 09/29/2008, -3/+2waste of sperm
- svivian, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2you jacked off to this article?
- OCPaul, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1i guess u got excited about my comment?
- 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.
- 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- ...
- Virgule, on 09/29/2008, -5/+1How to laugh at a Linux noob: Have him figure out how to delete a '--help' file.
]$ echo pwned > --help
]$ ls -a
--help .cups blablabla
.
..
]$ rm --help
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
mwhaaahhahahahaaa... - 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...
- 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.
- amoeba, on 09/29/2008, -1/+5how to speed up ubuntu:
tape your computer to a skateboard and push it down a hill - 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 - 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. - zenulator, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1new guide:
1. "sudo rm -rf /"
2. install archlinux - Technopundit, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2Put the install CD in a skeet launcher.
- mahadiga, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3http://wiki.dennyhalim.com/ubuntu-minimal-desktop
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