[Cialug] Speeding up Ubuntu 13.10 on my Dell Latitude

[Adam Hill]

Are you using unity?  They removed the lighter 2d unity GUI so you might
want to switch to something like XFCE or Fluxbox for a smaller footprint.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> > Agreed.  Also an ssd would probably help quite a bit as well.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On 01/02/2014 03:02 PM, Ralph Kessel wrote:
> >> > Adding 1037308k swap on /dev/mapper/cryptswap1
> >>
> >> Having swap on a non-crypto partition might help.
>
> Putting swap on an unencrypted partition opens up a potential information
> leak.
>
> Switching to a SSD will help a LOT.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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