Linux optimization

Steve Watford

Steve Watford

Steve Watford

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So I just installed Linux (although it broke my XP install :() so, as with windows, I usually install everything in order of importance. System, Drivers, Defrag, Programs, Optimization (like reg tweaks). I was wondering if there is anything in linux you can do like this, any optimization to make performance, usability or anything else better.
 
Depends how far you really want to take it. You have i686 optimized distributions like arch or source distributions like gentoo which can be very heavily optimised.

You can greatly decreate boot times by only starting services/daemons which you need and no others or by using a replacement init system like initng.

You can build your own custom kernel which you can compile all the drivers you need in and not rely on module loading thus usually a smaller memory footprint.

You can recomple binaries from source using more aggresive compiler switches (although the performance gain is negligable really).
 
unlike windows, there's not an awful lot you can do to increase performance. depending on your commitment there's a few things you can do. you can compile your own kernel which isn't as hard as it seems, and you can disable all the stuff you don't need. i guess the most obvious one to increase speed would be to use a lightweight desktop environment/window manager such as xfce, or fluxbox, openbox etc. also there's different file systems but i think it's probably a bit overkill imho.

edit: bit slow and mostly already covered :o
 
Ah yeah indeed forgot to mention lightweight window managers/file managers and file systems. :p

The main performance increases come from bleeding edge code which is under testing and therefore isnt very stable. You could always switch to a development version of a distro for a speed increase, but often a broken system :)
 
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