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ubuntu tweaks?

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h4x0rj3ff

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is there a type of "build.prop" file in ubuntu (12.04 if it matters) so i can tweak my computer for more speed like i can on my phone? maybe a link to a website for tweaks for ubuntu? ive searched a bit but i couldnt really find any "down and dirty" tweaks that im looking for.
 
If you really wanna get into customizing, look into arch. It's mind blowing. I think I put in about a three week period trying to learn some of the in's and out's... and I *almost* had a working wifi connection ;)

On a completely unrelated note, I did get fairly good at using chroot to log into my other partition and use those wireless commands ;)

But I'm not aware of a build prop file in 12.04
Code: 
 find / -iname "build.prop"
found nothing on my system.
 
9to5cynic said:
If you really wanna get into customizing, look into arch. It's mind blowing. I think I put in about a three week period trying to learn some of the in's and out's... and I *almost* had a working wifi connection ;)

On a completely unrelated note, I did get fairly good at using chroot to log into my other partition and use those wireless commands ;)

But I'm not aware of a build prop file in 12.04
Code: 
 find / -iname "build.prop"
found nothing on my system.
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no, no, no, i want a file comparable or similar to my phones build.prop. sorry for the confusion. i can customize speed and other things on my phone via build.prop but what is the alike in ubuntu?
 
Looking for something like perhaps Ubuntu Tweak - Let's rock with Ubuntu ? It does have various things you can change...but not quite like a build.prop....


Also: ArchLinux. Ugh. Don't get me STARTED on that. BCM4313 and Arch are not very good friends....I went back to Scientific Linux...
 
Pssshhh.... debian ftw.

;)

And OP, I'm sure the error was all mine, it's been a long day ;D
By the way, I like how many linux users there are on these forums!! :D
 
Technically tons. :P

I myself have been a Linux user for the better part of the last decade.

I'm a big fan of fedora and red Hat distros. Ubuntu was nice, until gnome 3.

On topic: OP let me know if you are trying/looking into that. If not I'll dig some more.
 
Prinny said:
Technically tons. :P

I myself have been a Linux user for the better part of the last decade.

I'm a big fan of fedora and red Hat distros. Ubuntu was nice, until gnome 3.

On topic: OP let me know if you are trying/looking into that. If not I'll dig some more.
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the thing with that is ive been running ubuntu for about 6 months or so, maybe longer. i could put fedora on a different computer that i have to play with it and see if i like it but for my everyday daily driver ubuntu is it. i kinda like the ease of unity. and honestly the biggest reason that i finally switched over fully (been playing around with linux since early 2000's) is the support for ntfs drives. ( i got a big portable drive formatted in ntfs) does fedora and or red hat support ntfs? how are the ui's compared to unity? how is the ease of use compared to unity?
 
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

Go there, and check out all the different linux distro's. Click on one you see, and it shows screenshots of the UI :D

Personally, I used to be a HUGE ubuntu fan, when they were on Gnome2. Unity and Gnome3 I'm not really a big fan of. It's personal preference, though.

Edit: And they do support NTFS drives; At least the distro's I have used.

I can't make up my mind with a linux OS, though. It's pretty terrible. I change it every couple of weeks. There are so many options.
 
Grub will boot you into recovery. Setting to 0 really puts your system under risk.

I set a 10GB swap partition. That was over kill. Even when I only had 2GB RAM.

It can't hurt though. Try to add physical RAM and swap to total 12GB. Any more is a waste of disk space
 
i have an older system with a p4 3.06ghz processor, and 2gb of ddr2 ram. also i have a 500gb sata hdd, a 320gb sata hdd and a 250gb sata hdd. as far as swap space goes space really isn't a big deal seeing as i save all my files to my portable hdd. i keep NOTHING local because i feel its more secure that way... thanks for the info about swap space. if i set it to lets say 12gb like you said it wont hinder the performance of my system just waste space? i ask because in windows with page files you don't want to little but you really don't want too much ether because bad stuff will happen...

and with grub i want to keep it at least a 1 so its not totally disabled in the event i need to restore. correct?
 
In windows, you should have no bigger a page than you have RAM. I've never user more than 4GB swap with 2GB RAM. .. and thats on a build machine designed to compile android source code...
 
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