[LBo] Which one worked? (Re: QnA Digest, Vol 11, Issue 4)

[Tim]

On Sun July 8 2007 21:28, Allen wrote:
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> Simply Mephis 6.5.
>
> BTW, thanks for the info about the various generations of CPUs.
> Very useful going forward.
>
> Now what I need to do is learn how and what to strip out of the
> installed distro so that no unneeded processes are running in the
> background eating CPU cycles.
>
> The AMD K6 - 2+/270 is rather slow but it does have a lot of what
> the kids need and I'm sure a lot they don't.
>
> They really don't need 5 text editors, for example, but they are
> not running in the background so they don't matter so much.
>
> How can I identify what can safely be turned off and removed?
> What I'd like to do is re-master a distro so that it is good for
> this environment. I've got the "Live Linux CDs" book but that
> doesn't cover what can be safely removed.
>
> Tips?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen

If you open up synaptics  (yellow box on the task bar) and then click on 
installed, look for Kate (text editor), right click and select mark for 
removal, then click apply and a summary box will appear and tell you what is 
being removed (in this case just kate) but check all the other files as they 
may well be linked to other programs or removing entire suite of programs as 
well.

I said it before and will say it again, check out mepis lovers, it the forum 
for mepis and they are very helpful (thats not to say that you guys & gals 
here are not).

http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/index.php

Tim

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