2009/1/15
Rob OpenSuSE írta:
Well, my main desktop machine is dual core with 4GB of RAM, still when I upgrade it to the latest SuSE, the first thing I do is to remove / disable unnecessary services. Even here it makes a marked difference.
For 10.3, Coolo made an optimisation of start up, which involved letting YaST install the stuff needed, and set up scans. According to him, to the daemon start up is parallelised. If there is additional stuff to remove that speeds boot times, everyone will be pleased if it's moved to an on demand. An X terminal setup, has very much reduced software requirements, a lot of what you require on your desktop then becomes 'bloat'. The right optimisation goes much deeper than, just "turning off uncessary services". It would be wrong to inconvience the majority, by reduced default functionality in that case.
And while a few years ago one of the benefits of Linux was that it ran on any old hardware, where Windows was not an option, this is not the case any more.
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