Knut Yrvin wrote: > 1. To choose a more light weight approach, e.g change the windows > manager. Use iceWM or similar in stead of KDE or GNOME. > > 2. To clean up and get rid of unnecessary libraries when starting up > KDE or GNOME e.g: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13039 > Developers work on the startup times in the GNOME and KDE projects. > This improvements is on it's way. > > 3. Do smarter booting of the OS. Look at this presentation by > Margarita Manterola: > http://www.marga.com.ar/~marga/debian/boottime/debconf-boot.pdf > (Ubuntu has done smart things already with Dapper ...) > > 4. To better utilise the new features in GCC, and clean up application > code that is slow or less efficient > > I don't see the advantage of "smarter booting". At least we rarely reboot our terminal servers.
I would say use Epiphany instead of Firefox. Firefox is a monster. Add more RAM (so more stuff can be cached in RAM). RAM is quite cheap anyway. Put your disks in RAID1 (increases your read speed). -- Herman Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
