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XP vs Linux

Charlie_D said:
Yup, between us you'll get distro-specific help with just about anything you could hope to dig up online, and general help from everyone else :D

Also Smoke - I wasn't saying the systems have problems with the deadlines, just that some of the quad WUs are slower, and that I absolutely hate the duds :p

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Yes, SmokeRngs figured as much, however there were some complaints not too long ago about some of the work units having about a 1 day deadline. Even with that SmokeRngs has no trouble with his quads. There is definitely a difference in the PPD with the quad work units and the dual core work units. SmokeRngs' main machine with the dual clients doesn't get near the PPD as the machines with 2 VMs.

 
Honestly, I appologise (apologize?) if this is off topic :)

Hey, I just thought of something. In WinXP you use the services.msc command to get into the list of things loaded automatically whether you want them or not. With this command you can disable the services you don't want.

In the Linux Ubuntu flavor (and maybe others, I don't know :confused: ) there are (2x) pretty similar ways to trim, as I've heard it called, some of the "bloat" out of your chosen flavor. There are several pages, just like windose that show just what a certain service does. Below is one of my favorite URL's, but most certainly not the only one :D
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491

1) DL and install the sysv-rc-conf program and use sudo sysv-rc-conf at the control line to bring up a program that lets you activate or de activate some services.
2) probably easier than the one above is bum (the boot up manager GUI) and it's probably in your synaptic package manager.

Oh well, I learned about these two programs from individuals in forums and I imagine there are a few on this forum that can explain these programs better than me. Be very, very careful because if you don't know what your doing you can certainly screw up your distro ;)

 
Well, coming from the fedora camp...

If you're using the GUI (no reason not to have it installed if you're new to the OS, unless you're chronically short on space), you can hit System -> Administration -> services. That'll bring up a list of what you're running at start up, you can alter it for all the run levels.

Once you have it set the way you want, just alter /etc/inittab and change

Code: 
id:5:initdefault:
to

Code: 
id:3:initdefault:

In other words, it'll have your system default to starting in multiuser CLI mode, instead of the full GUI mode. Then, if there's something you want to change later, you can just run
Code: 
[Whomever@Whereever ~]# init 5
and jump back to the GUI again. For a beginner, that's probably the simplest solution (that's in my head currently...), and it should work for other distros in much the same way.


 
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