There are two ways to do this once antiX is installed. As always, YMMV.

1. The easy way. Install readahead-fedora

Subsequent boots and opening apps should be faster.

2. The complicated way. Use e4rat. You must have an ext4 filesystem.

Download and install the .deb from here:


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Follow the instructions from here:


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In my test, booting a newly-installed antiX-M11 with readahead went from 20 secs to 18. With e4rat, booting takes 10 seconds!

You cannot use readahead and e4rat together.

e4rat works nice on my old laptop as well, 36 secconds to boot compared to the original minute. That is about half the time just the same as yours. Good find anti

following the how-to, I used init 1 and upon reboot, I have no wireless, will redo using init 3 as wireless will work there and therefore it should be picked up by e4rat-collect

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Yep that's the ticket, got to be in 3 to have wireless pickup __{{emoticon}}__

cheers,
ohh

I'm tempted to include this with antiX-M11, but disabled.

What do you think?

I say go for it. Might be good to have a how-to for those with ext4 file systems in the FAQ.

I've been busy with the nice weather. So will be testing efrat later on my one AntiX 11 rc4 Base Iso install. In the Wind, Rok.

I say go for it too. Pulling all the dependencies in was the worst part for me, until I remembered to get build-essentials, then it went smooth, so If you already have all that taken care of it should be a great addition to an already outstanding distro __{{emoticon}}__

cheers,
ohh