Re:To improve Ubuntu, run Gentoo? (Score 1)

Well, it sure seems the author could have chosen a better title for this article - wishing to satisfy everybody, which is not easy in a diverse Linux distro world, he ended up satisfying very few.

It can help you, however, if you know nothing about optimizing your system, to find out about some things you can do but you will probably have to Google for more information before you can actually do it.

Also, I don't know if you've noticed but there's a "Resources" part at the bottom which leads you to sites with more info about some of the things discussed in the article. Haven't checked any but the one for exmap tool, which I'm going to use to assess the memory usage situation on my system - one useful thing from the article! :)

For all of you using KDE, I found an interesting wiki on KDE performance tips, that KDE users with modest systems might appreciate. It doesn't have an exact HOWTO on every thing it touches though but you can use Google to find these... ;)