{"id":113,"date":"2014-01-04T23:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mirageglobe.com\/wp\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-01-04T23:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:28:05","slug":"improving-the-speed-of-old-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/improving-the-speed-of-old-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the speed of Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an old machine around. You can probably bring it back to life using irish made, Linux Mint (based on ubuntu)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/linuxmint.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115 aligncenter\" alt=\"linuxmint\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/linuxmint.png\" width=\"412\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/index.php<br \/>\nAt this point i recommend using mint 13 (although its currently at 16..) xfe (low resource consumption). 13 is LTS (Long term support) meaning software support is up to 2017.<br \/>\nThe installation is a breeze and you should have all the installation drivers done for you. Chrome, Firefox, Libreoffice .. all supported.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIf you are finding that your laptop or desktop is still sluggish slow. Try the following<br \/>\n1) Install preload<br \/>\n&gt; sudo apt-get install preload<br \/>\n2) Edit swappiness config of mint.<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0cat \/proc\/sys\/vm\/swappiness<br \/>\nThis should be at 60<br \/>\n&gt; sudo nano \/etc\/sysctl.conf<br \/>\nAdd in the following lines<br \/>\n# improve swap<br \/>\nvm.swappiness = 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an old machine around. You can probably bring it back to life using irish made, Linux Mint (based on ubuntu) http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/index.php At this point i recommend using mint 13 (although its currently at 16..) xfe (low resource consumption). 13 is LTS (Long term support) meaning software support is up to 2017. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.alldaycity.com\/mirageglobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}