Hi All
*** Some tips for making the system boot faster and/or running the system more "light" *** (e.g. less RAM usage) on a frugal install
The following options will have most effect if you do all together, but just doing only one of them might improve a bit for making the system boot faster and/or running the system more 'light'
1) First: To convert the main '01-filesystem.squashfs', while running the system, (e.g. to LZ4, see below), upgrade the package 'edit-sfs-thunar' or edit-sfs-pcmanfm' to latest version: 2.4
(previous versions gave error -
already in use- when trying to convert '01-filesystem.squashfs' from frugal install)
- Convert the main module '01-filesystem.squashfs' to LZ4, if it isn't already (by default it may be "xz" or "gzip"),
Use "Open with Convert-SFS" from right-click menu from Thunar or PcmanFm on live/01-filesystem.squashfs, or from commandline, e.g.:
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conv-sfs /path-to-frugal-install/live/01-filesystem.squashfs
And choose LZ4 compression, when done, replace live/01-filesystem.squashfs (better first make backup) with the new LZ4 compressed module and reboot.
Using LZ4 will make boot time shorter and run the system more 'light'
2) Boot with systemd, add to your kernel boot commandline:
init=/bin/systemd
This will make boot time much shorter (and has the systemd configuration enabled, some people may like that, some not)
3) Install 'slim' login-manager (if already installed but not enabled yet, run "Start/Stop Slim display-manager" from Menu, to enable)
If slim isn't already configured to autologin and you want that, edit /etc/slim.conf to e.g:
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default_user root
...
auto_login yes
This will make boot time shorter and there's 'true' multi-user support then.
Additional info: When using "porteus-boot" option changes=EXIT:/.... (changes saved only at shutdown, or when running "save2flash" in terminal), the system runs faster, as the changes made are running completely in RAM (which is very fast)
But if you have small amount of RAM it's not recommended (may be not sufficient space, e.g. when installing lots of packages).
Fred