On 28 January 2013 13:11, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > carachi diego <carachi83@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I would like to know if someone knows where I can find some guide, >> tutorial that can help me to improve the performance of Fedora on my >> laptop in start up. > > The biggest change you can make to your laptop to get it to boot faster > is throw out the rotating disk and buy an SSD (Solid State Disk). A > 120GB disk can be had for under $120. You can cut your boot time from > 1+ minute to 15 sec (from the time grub loads to the time the login > screen appears). No other change you can make will be anywhere close to > that dramatic. > > The one fly in the ointment is that you need to have a modern enough > laptop for the disk to be a SATA disk. Anything newer than ~2007 should > be ok (but check your disk first before ordering an SSD). > This is a pretty big change, but actually my F17 laptop boots fairly quick even with a platter disc. If you look at Lennart's blame game page (already linked) you can save a lot of time by not waiting on services you don't need (not necessarily even disabling them, just not waiting for things that aren't needed during boot). -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
