I've been looking into streamlining boot times, and seeing if there is an easy way (either text or gui based) to decide which services and programs to keep and which to disable.
Here are a few programs to try out if you want to check which services and applications are being loaded at startup (and disable if you want to free up memory).
sysvconfig
bum (boot-up manager)
sysv-rc-conf
I'll add a few more details once I've had a play with them.
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sysvconfig seems like a very old program. It wasn't in the Ubuntu repositories, and I found a reference to it being an equivalent to a Redhat program from around 1999-2000. Will forget that one.
ReplyDeleteBum looks better (the name alone gives a plethora of possibilities for euphemistic fun...), but all it seems to have shown me so far is how few services appear to be loaded at startup. Not much that can be disabled really.
sysv-rc-conf is a text-gui program that lists everything that starts at different runlevels, I need to understand a bit (or maybe a lot) more about the boot process before doing much tinkering with this. Runlevels would be a good place to start...