Efficient start up of OS and Applications (Resolved - thanks)

[leadwt]

Hi.

It's a lovely bank holiday here in the UK (i.e. it's raining cats 'n dogs) so I thought I would raise a poser.

I'm fairly new so still playing with bits and pieces in Kubuntu.

I have found it is not that quick on start-up and loading applications. I have used some of the programmes available for getting rid of orphaned packages and other things but can anyone point me in the direction of system 'speed tweaks'? I would like to learn a bit more about what libraries etc should be retained and what kernal etc. so that I can 'clean-up' the system on a regular basis and also know why and what I am doing.

Thanks.

Paul

[Robin T Cox]

Re: Efficient start up of OS and Applications

It's cloudy but dry up here in Scotland. Glad you're enjoying the break.

Try this link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=wiki+dma

[leadwt]

Re: Efficient start up of OS and Applications



Thanks for the link - it's bookmarked!

I'm in the process of reading it all and experimenting as I go.

Paul.

[askrieger]

Re: Efficient start up of OS and Applications (Resolved - thanks)

You can also google/linux for "speed up kubuntu" and get a number of useful tips. One of the best if you think your apps are starting slowly is prelinking: See this blog. The author has a couple of other useful tweaks on his blog as well.

There used to be a whole site about speeding up KDE, but I can't find it any more

[leadwt]

Re: Efficient start up of OS and Applications (Resolved - thanks)

Thanks for the last.

I'm still getting used to using the net properly although sometimes you find too much info. Your Blog was interesting and is bookmarked.

Cheers.