| "Tips and tweaks to speed up your Linux desktop" |
May 16, 2005
This week, LinuxJournal.com hosts the first of author Tom Adelstein's tips for "optimizing desktop performance" -- simple configuration changes that promise to make the word processor "spring open" and the web browser "fly."
Using Fedora Core 3 and Ubuntu 5.0.4 as examples, Adelstein explains the major speed bottleneck -- Linux's tendency to use virtual disk memory rather than RAM -- and how to widen the tunnel. It's command line kernel config country, but Adelstein guides you through it step by step. Adelstein also recommends eliminating unused virtual consoles, as each "consumes memory," and then he tackles the OpenOffice.org office suite.
Due to space constraints, Adelstein's configuration tips have been split into a series of articles. "Each change we make in future articles will have a cumulative effect," Adelstein promises. "Soon you will see your entire Linux operating system in a new way -- as a fast desktop."
Read Tom Adelstein's "Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part I" at LinuxJournal.com and learn how to speed up your desktop.
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