[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part III | Linux Journal

[Tom Adelstein]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:59 -0400, Pat Regan wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8322
> > 
> 
> I skimmed the article, and I did not see my favorite boot up tweak.  I
> don't remember where I got the idea, but moving gdm/xdm/kdm from the end
> of the boot process closer to the beginning does wonders.  I just
> checked my Debian desktop machine and it has gdm at S99, my laptop seems
> to be S18.
> 
> Things are a little bit sluggish during and right after login...  But at
> least I don't have to wait so long to do something useful after booting
> my laptop (which isn't so often anymore, due to software suspend).
> 
> Disabling unused services is great, as long as you still have services
> left to turn off :).
> 
> Pat


Great information Pat!

Thank you that tweak makes so much sense. WOW.