How to make your Linux computer boot faster

Submitted by srlinuxx on Sun, 11/09/2008 - 10:41.

Your computer probably boots with grub, and in a grub configuration file, there is a "timeout" value that you can reduce. It is not recommended that you let it be less than 2, but if it is three or more, go ahead and change it.*

I'll make it real simple for you, if you are running Gnome. Copy and paste the following into a terminal window: