In part 2 of the "Get rid of your Linux bloat" series I talked about removing excess packages from your chosen distribution and only having installed what you actually need. In this final part we are going to go into territory that, if it were a store bought item, would void your guarantee.

This is about the final frontier of trimming the fat off of your penguin and is really only for the brave of soul and stout of heart. You have the potential to irrecoverably (not really but I am trying to scare you here break your system. Once you go down this road you are committed to maintaining your own packages, however you will have a lean mean Linux machine.

After decreasing your boot times as in part 1 and removing extra packages as in part 2 there is not much left. About the only thing we can really do is recompile packages.

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