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

[Chris Cox]

Stuart Johnston wrote:
> 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

It's already this way in SUSE 9.3 as well.