X11 and desktop speedups?

[Skunk Worx]

I've had a lot of luck filling the ks %post are with customizations, yum 
updating, adding custom packages, etc.

Also getting comfortable modifying the /livecd/kadischi.tar.gz files to 
populate /root with some needed KDE menus and scripts, etc. Also am 
getting a handle on the py and sh scripts.

I've noticed I have to append "smp" to the kernel version in kadischi.py 
to get an smp kernel. Maybe there could be a command line option for 
smp? Just an idea.

Right now I'm trying to come up with some way to speed up X11 and the 
desktop launch. It seems pretty slow compared to knoppix. I assume it's 
the decompression of the lib and bin files, not sure.

Has anyone come up with a way to speed things up? I'm guessing I can 
either save some bins and libs to media uncompressed (just as the 
kernel, kadaschi.tar.gz, initrd, isolinux, etc. are) or maybe decompress 
tarballs on startup into a ramdisk or some such.

Any ideas or success stories are appreciated.

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SW

[J. Hartline]

Skunk Worx wrote:
> I've noticed I have to append "smp" to the kernel version in 
> kadischi.py to get an smp kernel. Maybe there could be a command line 
> option for smp? Just an idea.

You can also modify base/comps.xml and put in a smp kernel specifier. 
This is where I put all my packages, so that they could be selected or 
unselected instead of having to edit another file every time. Also, not 
sure, but to save space, you could chmod the UP kernel in your 
repository non readable, and have the smp kernel only, you might get 
away with a single SMP kernel install, each kernel is about 50MB to my 
knowledge.