Guide to optimize Ubuntu?

[Olafur Arason]

You can also install xubuntu to access xfce which is a lite desktop.

Do sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the terminal. Find DefaultDepth
and change it to 16 or 8 (but 8 is to extreme in most cases).
Then you have to restart X ( you can do that by doing ctrl-alt-backspace)
they you have less colors.

Disable panel animation:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/panel/global/enable_animations false

Go to System->Preferences->Theme and change the theme by going to
Theme Details. Choose something lite like Raleigh or Simple for
Controls and Atlanta or Esco for Window.

Go to Nautilus and Edit->Preferences->Preview and use Never for all.

Go to System->Preferences->Menus And Toolbars and unselect
Show icons in menu you can also change the Toolbar button label to only
Text.

Disable using Nautilus for the desktop:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

Turn off unessisary virtual terminals:
sudo gedit /etc/inittab and put # in front of
these lines:
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

The you can follow this guide to tuning your hardrive for speed, this
is important if you have little memory and other wise. This might
freeze your computer then just restart. Then when you found the right
one just do: sudo gedit /etc/rcS.d/S70hdparm
and add that line to your file.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html?page=1

I also stubled opon this guide if you find it usefull:
http://lintellect.org/index.php?p=13

Hope this helps.

Olafur Arason
2005/12/10, Luca Manganelli <luca76 at gmail.com>:
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