Making Yellow Dog Linux faster - how?

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clean_me

Limp Gawd
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So I installed YDL 5.0.1 for my PS3. Everything works fine, BUT, launching programs is slow. I have a feeling that's due to the 256mbRAM.

I am not familiar with Linux so how can I speed Linux up? Are there any processes I can kill or things to uninstall or commands to run?
 
Launching of programs is mostly drive speed. But on a PS3, you're also dealing with the lack of memory and probably hitting swap as soon as you try to run anything.

I hate to say it, but Linux pn the PS3 isn't much more than a "wow look what I can do" thing.
 
alan2308 said:
Launching of programs is mostly drive speed. But on a PS3, you're also dealing with the lack of memory and probably hitting swap as soon as you try to run anything.

I hate to say it, but Linux pn the PS3 isn't much more than a "wow look what I can do" thing.
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That's what I suspected. Hmm, would one of those new 7200rpm laptop drives help? Going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm?

I do like Firefox on Linux though as now I have a complete browser and can download things and do pretty much everything albeit a very basic level.

So no fancy commands I should enter?
 
clean_me said:
That's what I suspected. Hmm, would one of those new 7200rpm laptop drives help? Going from 5400rpm to 7200rpm?

I do like Firefox on Linux though as now I have a complete browser and can download things and do pretty much everything albeit a very basic level.

So no fancy commands I should enter?
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Going to 7200, particularly if it has the new perpendicular heads, will improve speed.
 
Private_Ops said:
Kinda like reviving an old P166 MMX and running Linux?
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That P166 could still pull duty as a firewall/router or maybe even a home file server if it has a free PCI slot or two. :D


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