On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabriel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In my experience, most main-stream distros can be made relatively > lightweight by: > > * Choosing a different Desktop environment. Gnome and KDE > are nicely fully-featured... but have a lot of extra > fluff running in the background. Switch to something > like Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or (if you're really hard-core) > blackbox. > > * Disable and uninstall extra stuff that you don't need. > If you don't need a mail server, NFS, Samba, CUPS, Apache, > HAL, dbus, etc. -- Disable or uninstall them. If you only > need them occasionally, enable them only when you need them. > i've always been curious about which programs/services i can get rid of, but i've been too chicken to experiment first hand, not wanting to break a working system. can you point to some good resources to determine which stuff is expendable for a music-oriented system? FWIW, i've been running xubuntu, like someone else has already suggested, works great. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
