Guide to optimize Ubuntu?

[Olafur Arason]

Sorry try adding #! /bin sh
at the top and doing chmod +x /etc/rcS.d/S70hdparm
That should work, hopefully.

Olafur Arason
2005/12/11, j Mak <joz_mak at yahoo.ca>:
>
> --- 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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