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Featherweight Linux: How to turn a netbook or older laptop into a Ferrari

Akkana Peck (*)

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Linux
Location: Ballroom A2

Presentation Files:
Featherweight Linux_ How to turn a netbook or older laptop into a Ferrari Presentation [ZIP],
http://shallowsky.com/featherweight/

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(4.00, 9 ratings)

Small is the new black! The “netbook” craze, with machines like the Asus Eee, has raised a lot of interest in small and relatively slow hardware. Even if you don’t have a shiny new netbook, what about that older laptop sitting in your closet … that one that you stopped using because it was too slow? Maybe you’ve wondered if there’s a way to bring that old hardware back to life?

This talk will cover ways of configuring a Linux distribution to run efficiently on slow CPU, low memory machines. You can get big performance gains from areas such as:

speeding up the boot process
options for lightweight window managers
performance tools that can help you find bottlenecks
tuning your kernel
Finding lightweight alternatives to big applications

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Akkana Peck

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Akkana Peck is a freelance software developer and writer, and the author of the book “Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional.” She has been an open source software developer for some 20 years and has contributed to Mozilla, GIMP and an assortment of other projects. Her web site is http://shallowsky.com

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David Lundberg

07/24/2009 10:46am PDT

practical, useful. excellent.

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