Tuning Linux for the desktop

Tuning Linux for the desktop

Posted Aug 9, 2007 23:49 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek) by Zhohar
Parent article: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

It's true that Fedora isn't tuned as a desktop OS, by default. You might get better results with Ubuntu, which is.

Or, do some tuning yourself. Start by changing your disk partition mount options to add "noatime": in /etc/fstab, change each occurrence of "defaults" to "defaults,noatime". You can change this safely on a running system from the command line, without rebooting, with

  mount -o remount,noatime /

and likewise for any other partitions you have mounted (typically e.g., /home, /usr, /var).

People report easily perceptible performance improvements after this change.

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