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

[Stuart Johnston]

Tom Adelstein wrote:
> 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.

RedHat has been working on making this the default.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg00416.html