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uninstalling unneeded stuff
Name: vishal Date: June 11, 2003 at 18:19:34 Pacific OS: redhat CPU/Ram: p90/40mb
Comment:
Hi,
I have an old version of redhat (freesco) installed on a p90 machine. It is running quite slow and I am wondering if i can remove/uninstall things that I don't need such as ftp server, http server, etc. If this is possible, can you please tell me how?? Thanks!
Name: virtualXTC Date: June 12, 2003 at 01:40:14 Pacific
Reply:
the eaisiest and best way is to install apt-get on the machine then use apt to uninstall everything.
I find redhats rpm managers to not be so stable.
http://apt.freshrpms.net/
-Jason
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Response Number 2
Name: Dlonra Date: June 12, 2003 at 09:18:56 Pacific
Reply:
if u are not running ftp or httpd, removing them will have ~0 increase in performance.
Check cpu usage with top.
More likely: less daemons, more swap, more RAM.
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Response Number 3
Name: vishal Date: June 13, 2003 at 12:27:32 Pacific
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Good advice... thanks. I actually just need the box to access mp3's off another computer. I have found out that I need a kernel upgrade in order to access an ntfs partition. I realize this is a two-fold task since i have to access a network drive which is an ntfs drive. Is that even possible?? Any input would be great!
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