Laptop server, command line or desktop?

Radiation · 25 Jul 2012 at 12:33

I've had lubuntu installed on an old laptop for a while now, how would i go about optimizing it further like removing unneeded processes and should i boot into command line, if so how do i do it?

Saikor · 25 Jul 2012 at 12:48

There a ways to do it, essentially you just need to prevent gdm from loading on startup or updating lightdm.conf to not startup. That said you are probably a lot better off using ubuntu server if you are using the laptop as server:

http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview

Radiation · 25 Jul 2012 at 13:07

I just followed this and it works but when i try to startx it says a bunch of stuff and i stay in command line?

Also how do i go about disabling unneeded processes?

Radiation · 25 Jul 2012 at 14:59

I changed it back and now it shows a login box where it was automatic before, when i enter my password it goes black then shows the box again.