On Aug 05, Shaleh wrote: > I will be using my Debian machine as a workstation. No outside access > will be needed and my only networking will be through PPP. I intend to > run X and basically tinker, surf, program, and enjoy not using Microsoft > products. My questions is --> what can I do to minimize my memory/cpu > use and maximize my machines potential?? Would using a different getty > help; are there daemons running that I do not need since I am not a > server? I have a 150+ and 64M of RAM plus a 96M swap area, running IDE > because my family still wants Win95 and I am a poor college student.
I'm no professional, but as far as I understand, there is no need to bother with a few daemons running in the background. They will sleep until you awake them (this lies in the nature of a daemon, right :-). And you awake them only if you need them (like lpd, the printer daemon). Check it with "top", you will see that they don't use any CPU (0.0%). So, your machine runs at highspeed anyway. With a 150+, 64M RAM, you are fully prepared. I would not care about a few byte for the daemons to lay around and sleep. See, this is not windows: linux *is* optimized. With debian, install the packages you need, and you have what you want. I run a pentium 100 with only 32MB here, and I can run X and a kernel compile, etc, no problems. I have all sorts of servers laying around, for example a web server, so that I can view html-docs under http://localhost with my favourite browser. I have printer daemon and others. They don't eat resources until you use them. So, AFAIK, just install and enjoy will give you MAXIMAL potential with a MINIMUM of effort. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .