Guide to optimize Ubuntu?

[j Mak]

--- Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Hi Olafur,

I put this line in the /etc/rcS.d/S70hdparm file as
you said but after reboot my hdparm reset to the
original default setting.

hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hdb

Did I miss something?

J. Mak
> 
> Olafur Arason
> 2005/12/10, Luca Manganelli <luca76 at gmail.com>:
> > Hi, there's a guide to optimize ubuntu for speed?
> > --
> > "An algorithm must be seen to be believed."
> >    -- Donald Knuth, in "Fundamental Algorithms"
> >                               
> http://www.trapanator.com/blog
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