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- TuxNuts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Real information from someone in the industry instead of some lame list on a blog? Dugg.
- bestadvocate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33I love these IBM articles so much, I actually bothered to fill out one of their semi-random surveys
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Should mention this is more for personal linux boxes rather then servers. Good read nonetheless.
- xobecide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17@guptu
Not everyone knows the things you do, and because you know them doesn't mean the community at large knows them. I've hung out on the internet for years and I still find new and useful information every day, and I wouldn't without people posting articles like this and for people digging them for people like me.
I'm not going to say any noob rubbish like "stfu" or "gtfo" but if you have this obvious bank of intellect I urge you to share it with the world, and don't assume its common knowledge. - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17myfan was clearly jesting at how most linux articles on digg use "ubuntu" and "linux" interchangeably.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11They're loaded because it's an easy thing to do: load all of the modules that could possibly be used, then systematically prune the ones that aren't being used. Since they really don't use up very much space at all (they're paged out, and never paged back in because, well, they're not in use), they're not "wasting memory". Furthermore, systems like CUPS depend on certain drivers being in place to operate, and it's best to have them around just in case.
You really need to understand Linux architecture before you start questioning it. On an OS like Slackware or Gentoo, it's custom tailoring itself to run on your machine, and only your machine. Ubuntu is built for "Human Beings", and thusly the developers realize in order to "Just Work (tm)" lots of things need to be done as trade offs and sacrifices to support as many people without being completely inefficient at the same time. One of those trade offs is the "Fat" kernel with dozens of modules. - raseel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I had already read this one and found it useful before. Still, I'm not gonna bury it, I love the IBM articles.
- Vash63, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I like how every comment in here with anything slightly negative about Ubuntu gets buried.
- dixonHill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@Philluminati
This is what us OTHER Linux guys dread...when you Linux guys lose your sense of humor and your ability to spot obvious sarcasm. - Auzy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13Linux is not the same as ubuntu.. Ubuntu is just a distribution of Linux.
- Vash63, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How would that be a tweak? If you're replacing it with Windows, it would be far slower and use up way more RAM, so that's kind of the opposite of a tweak.
- pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Determining how much memory programs are using
on linux is surprisingly difficult. Here's a script to help:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py - TruckStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I didn't have much luck reading digg.com using lynx as a browser.
- redxii, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12One should be asking the Ubuntu developers why modules irrelevant to the hardware are being loaded. For instance, why are asus_acpi and sony_acpi loaded on an HP laptop? The motherboard isn't even Asus. Why are lp and parport_pc loaded, when the computer doesn't have a parallel port? In Slackware I may have those things compiled as modules, but they do not apply to my system and therefore aren't loaded. Only modules applying to my hardware are loaded.
- stinkfart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@xst4t1kx:
I think I'll stick with my pronounceable/memorable alias. Thanks much. - onnoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Extra RAM (if that's what you mean) is not always an option: many BIOSes support limited amounts of RAM.
- reclusivemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its also nice to see IBM have added a Firefox search engine to add to the top right; the green triangle is a joy to see!
- radius7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2some tweaks suits for Windows too ...
Thx anyway :) - stinkfart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Tonight I just saved a ton of memory on my Linux box.
I installed OpenBSD 4.0.
Really. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I know I've seen this article on Digg before. The duplicate article code isn't working. Also, this offers the most obvious tips ever. The whole article summed up in one sentence is, "To use less memory, use apps that take up less memory." Wow.
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can also improve your I.Q. by adopting a new handle. Check it out.
- Vision2098, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4@redxii
That is indeed strange; I'm not sure why they would make it do that.
Seems rather sloppy for such a widely praised distro. - pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah, why not throw money at a problem rather than fixing it at the source?
- amlynch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2why don't you just buy memory offsets?
- soudak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I think they should have called it "OMG!!! Top 5 ways t0 sp33d up LiNuX!!!!!!1!!!!" Oh well...
- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9
This is what us Linux guys dread....when Ubuntu guys can't understand that it's just a distro of Linux. - myfanwy, on 10/12/2007, -17/+13Linux? don't you mean ubuntu?
dugg, IBM pages always useful - P373Y, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Linux=front page
i dont want to know how to reduce memory for the fifth time this week - Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3@ sishgupta
But they are not interchangable!
I'm missing great articles about interesting technologies and tools because from the title they look to be Ubuntu specific. Most aren't but some are and I must say it's a little annoying. - mitcharoni, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0Best tweak ever: uninstall the damn thing.
- Auzy, on 10/12/2007, -22/+4Blame the idiots who digg anything up with a title containing "linux/ubuntu" and [insert random optimisation]
- Auzy, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4How is this a good read?
This is all obvious stuff.. I dont think a single digg user hasn't already done this stuff. Also, this doesn't take into account caching whatsoever.
Dugg down. Enough tweaks.. Especially enough obvious/untested ones for the front page of digg today - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -27/+8Do you?
So far every article I have read has turned out to be generalized rhetoric on things the community at large already knows about. I am constantly expecting something new and informative coming from IBM, a respected industry leader, yet I always close the page disappointed after having read something like this Digg which I believe to be barely good enough for a mild Linux enthusiast's blog.
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