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Rytron
December 11th, 2009, 05:02 PM
Do you disable services in Ubuntu?

Marlonsm
December 11th, 2009, 05:12 PM
Just some of them
My computer is running fast enough so digging around for which services I can disable and which I can't just isn't worth it.

bodhi.zazen
December 11th, 2009, 05:25 PM
Moved to the cafe. I disable all services I do not use.

jomiolto
December 11th, 2009, 05:32 PM
I don't use a default installation, so I don't really need to disable services :)

pwnst*r
December 11th, 2009, 05:35 PM
nah, i'm not concerned with RAM or CPU processes.

joeknoodle
December 11th, 2009, 05:37 PM
Don't use bluetooth at all right now - no bt devices

Don't use print services - enable them on the few occasions I do print

Slow system, so every little bit helps.

MooPi
December 11th, 2009, 05:37 PM
I concur with jomiolto

I don't use a default installation, so I don't really need to disable services
If I'm turning things off then It's a malware thats leaked in from :twisted: gnome-look

Uncle Spellbinder
December 11th, 2009, 05:38 PM
nah, i'm not concerned with RAM or CPU processes.

Ditto

NoaHall
December 11th, 2009, 05:42 PM
I have plenty of RAM, and CPU power, but I do turn them off - because they aren't needed. Same reason why I use Arch.

Psumi
December 11th, 2009, 05:45 PM
I usually disable bluetooth, and that's about it.

RabbitWho
December 11th, 2009, 05:52 PM
I disabled bluetooth.. That's it, because everything else I don't know what it is so I'm afraid to.

MaxIBoy
December 11th, 2009, 05:55 PM
I disable Bluetooth, VPN, cron/anacron, saned, and a few more.

falconindy
December 11th, 2009, 05:57 PM
I disable Bluetooth, VPN, cron/anacron, saned, and a few more.
You should understand what cron does and who uses it before you choose to disable it.

Dragonbite
December 11th, 2009, 07:12 PM
I disable Bluetooth because I don't have any devices.

Other than that, I can never tell what to turn off or not. Like do I need 3 cron-like services and 3 logging services or can I get by with one?

chessnerd
December 11th, 2009, 07:18 PM
I disable some stuff I don't need (for example, neither of my systems has bluetooth, so I remove those programs and disable their services) but I don't go and cut down everything I can. In fact, I even add some extra stuff. On my laptop, because I have the RAM, I load KDE libraries at the startup. It makes running KDE applications much quicker.

ratcheer
December 11th, 2009, 07:21 PM
I use bum (bootup manager) and turn off everything I don't use.

Tim

MaxIBoy
December 11th, 2009, 07:21 PM
You should understand what cron does and who uses it before you choose to disable it.
By default, neither Debian nor Ubuntu actually have any cron jobs. They are not used for anything by default, they slow your boot time, and I haven't needed them so far. Been running without them for about four or five months.

falconindy
December 11th, 2009, 10:58 PM
By default, neither Debian nor Ubuntu actually have any cron jobs. They are not used for anything by default, they slow your boot time, and I haven't needed them so far. Been running without them for about four or five months.
False. You're probably looking in /etc/cron.d/ when you should be looking in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}/.

The below results are from a vanilla Karmic install on my VM:

$ ls /etc/cron.*
cron.d:
anacron

cron.daily:
0anacron apt bsdmainutils logrotate mlocate standard
apport aptitude dpkg man-db popularity-contest

cron.hourly:

cron.monthly:
0anacron sreadahead standard

cron.weekly:
0anacron apt-xapian-index man-d
Looks like there's plenty of update jobs in there.

nothingspecial
December 11th, 2009, 11:07 PM
yep

wojox
December 11th, 2009, 11:11 PM
Yes, I have the need, the need for speed.

Nerd King
December 12th, 2009, 03:55 AM
I get rid of things I don't need, and because I'm a tweak-a-holic.

Yvan300
December 12th, 2009, 04:05 AM
Only a few such as the blue tooth and assistive tools.