making Ubuntu 10.4 Fast by loading it to ram
What this guide will try to accomplish The guide basically explains how to create a squashfs image out of your existing Ubuntu installation and copy the entire image to RAM upon boot to speed up your OS. I will also go into some detail of how to make your /home mount from a regular hard drive thereby making sure the important information one would wish to save on their machine would remain untouched between boots. A little history I have always been fascinated with the idea of speeding up an OS by the non-conventional way of providing a faster medium from which it runs. I call this non-conventional because I use to think (and I believe many people still do) that just by buying faster and faster processors that my computer would keep speeding up more and more. Although this is the case to some degree, after purchasing my QX9650 a few years back and not seeing as much of a difference as I would have hoped, I realized there had to be something else that was slowing my c...