Comments on: Netbook optimization

By: ylee

ylee — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:57:53 +0000

Great article and some interesting advice Bodhi. I esp like the use of a Ram Disk. I am currently using Bodhi Linux on an Acer aspire one netbook and it works great. No sluggishness or any problems with flash. I never really understood the complaints about flash on linux as I have never had any problems with it in any distro, perhaps it is an issue with certain video cards.

But anyway you should give Bodhi Linux a try, it has your name, lol. But regardless of that it is currently based on ubuntu 10.04 and uses enlightenment as a window manager and a default install is very minimal. I am coming to love enlightenment. I highly recommend it to anyone using a netbook or even a ‘real’ computer.

Also of interest is slitaz. Slitaz is awesome, more minimal than Bodhi and uses Openbox. I plan on also installing it on the netbook but for now I am preoccupied with things Bodhi.

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:47:57 +0000

@Steve: Glad you liked it, thank you for the comments.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:12:44 +0000

Nice article.

FYI, when the memory is filled up anything in tmpfs will be written to the swap file. That is the advantage of tmpfs over ramfs. Same thing happens if tmpfs is filled up, it is written to the swap file.

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:32:20 +0000

@ Steve linky ?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:29:14 +0000

I have found installing rt-linux and tweaking /etc/security/limits.conf to greatly improve the performance on my asus eee to the point that LMMS and youtube work quite well actually ;-)

By: Philip Almeida

Philip Almeida — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:16:14 +0000

Perfect, it worked 100%!
Tested on a Lenovo S10, Ubuntu/Debian 9.04

Thanks in the name of all humans.

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By: severity1

severity1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:32:57 +0000

I have to try this! Thanks bodhi! If you are interested I have some battery life tweaks series going on at my blog. :)

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By: Dominik

Dominik — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:42:45 +0000

Very nice article. I actually run Windows XP on my netbook currently as I could not get flash videos to play full screen without being choppy in Linux. I may take some of your tips and give it another try.

I’d also like to say that Jolicloud is a wonderful little OS. I love the interface they created (based on GNOME). The only gripe is the graphics lag when you switch between apps. It seems they are alive and well, although the blog hasn’t been updated in a week (http://www.jolicloud.com/blog/). The only thing I am waiting for is Intel Atom optimizations at the kernel level, which they promise in their next alpha release.