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here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches t

here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

nisa 13y ago
I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them. Regarding swap compression: I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11 To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1 Both can't be running at the same time. 1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ 2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/ http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  thanks for this! Just removed zram-config and updated guide.
rodolphoarruda 13y ago
What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.
- pritambaral 13y ago
  GNOME (the devs, not the libraries or shell) is what's wrong with nautilus. They kept removing useful features. That was the very reason why Nemo was forked in the first place.
  - mixmastamyk 13y ago
    Right, nautilus was never big on features, but it had the basics. Now it has less than the file manager in Windows 3.1. Yet it still uses plenty of ram.
  - rodolphoarruda 13y ago
    I'm giving Nemo a try. It's nice to be able to open files as root. And it seems a bit lighter than Nautilus.
rthomas6 13y ago
Why even use Ubuntu at this point? Why not Debian? Or even something totally different?
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  Good question - and I have no answer. Im just too used to ubuntu and all the default repositories, etc. However, I primarily intended this setup for someone like me - who sets up a default ubuntu install and then finds himself slowed down. So these steps are intended to be run safely from a fully working ubuntu install.
- epsylon 13y ago
  Why switch to Debian? It's not like his customization does transform it into a radically different distro. For one thing, he keeps the Ubuntu repos (which I personally find better on a Desktop).
japhyr 13y ago
I'm an emacs person myself, but when I teach Python I have students install Geany. I love it for working with beginners. I'm curious, what do you use Geany for?
- l337n1nj4 13y ago
  Geany is a great IDE, but for Python, I've learned to love Ninja IDE: ninja-ide.org
  - jbeja 13y ago
    VIM
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  I'm using geany as the default text editor instead of gedit - I am really loving it and it is much lighter. gedit pulls in a whole bunch of background processes that I wanted to eliminate.
J_Darnley 13y ago
Are you aware that your page there just seems to spew the raw HTML source to a page it looks like it should be embedding from Github?
- sandGorgon 13y ago
  Ummm.. no. Let me check that. EDIT - just checked on my phone and it seemed ok. Could you detail what you are seeing and what browser. Thanks!
  - J_Darnley 13y ago
    Firefox 25 and its probably due to a lack of javascript (sorry if this wastes your time) because what I see is this in Firebug: <p>This setup should take less than 400 mb RAM on startup.</p> <script> ... </script> <div style="margin-bottom:1em;padding:0;"> <noscript> <code> <pre style="overflow:auto;margin:0;padding:0;border:1px solid #DDD;"><!DOCTYPE html>...
    - sandGorgon 13y ago
      yeah, I didn't plan on nojs. might have to look for a better github plugin!

nisa 13y ago

I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them. Regarding swap compression: I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11 To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1 Both can't be running at the same time. 1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/ 2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/ http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/

sandGorgon 13y ago
thanks for this! Just removed zram-config and updated guide.

rodolphoarruda 13y ago

What's wrong with Nautilus? I'm just curious.

pritambaral 13y ago
GNOME (the devs, not the libraries or shell) is what's wrong with nautilus. They kept removing useful features. That was the very reason why Nemo was forked in the first place.
- mixmastamyk 13y ago
  Right, nautilus was never big on features, but it had the basics. Now it has less than the file manager in Windows 3.1. Yet it still uses plenty of ram.
- rodolphoarruda 13y ago
  I'm giving Nemo a try. It's nice to be able to open files as root. And it seems a bit lighter than Nautilus.

rthomas6 13y ago

Why even use Ubuntu at this point? Why not Debian? Or even something totally different?

sandGorgon 13y ago
Good question - and I have no answer. Im just too used to ubuntu and all the default repositories, etc. However, I primarily intended this setup for someone like me - who sets up a default ubuntu install and then finds himself slowed down. So these steps are intended to be run safely from a fully working ubuntu install.
epsylon 13y ago
Why switch to Debian? It's not like his customization does transform it into a radically different distro. For one thing, he keeps the Ubuntu repos (which I personally find better on a Desktop).

japhyr 13y ago

I'm an emacs person myself, but when I teach Python I have students install Geany. I love it for working with beginners. I'm curious, what do you use Geany for?

l337n1nj4 13y ago
Geany is a great IDE, but for Python, I've learned to love Ninja IDE: ninja-ide.org
- jbeja 13y ago
  VIM
sandGorgon 13y ago
I'm using geany as the default text editor instead of gedit - I am really loving it and it is much lighter. gedit pulls in a whole bunch of background processes that I wanted to eliminate.

J_Darnley 13y ago

Are you aware that your page there just seems to spew the raw HTML source to a page it looks like it should be embedding from Github?

sandGorgon 13y ago
Ummm.. no. Let me check that. EDIT - just checked on my phone and it seemed ok. Could you detail what you are seeing and what browser. Thanks!
- J_Darnley 13y ago
  Firefox 25 and its probably due to a lack of javascript (sorry if this wastes your time) because what I see is this in Firebug: <p>This setup should take less than 400 mb RAM on startup.</p> <script> ... </script> <div style="margin-bottom:1em;padding:0;"> <noscript> <code> <pre style="overflow:auto;margin:0;padding:0;border:1px solid #DDD;"><!DOCTYPE html>...
  - sandGorgon 13y ago
    yeah, I didn't plan on nojs. might have to look for a better github plugin!