Speeding up Fedora on the XO

[Todd Robinson]

Just a couple of notes to anyone offering advice in any forums on using 
the F10 XO release.

Simply removing 'reset_overlay' from olpc.fth resulted in boot times 
dropping from around 7 minutes to about 3
3 minute boot time = 2 min to the login + 1 to load the desktop (rounded 
to the nearest minute)

Also, by making the background a solid color (no graphic) and using the 
"Mist" theme things are much snapier.

And by creating a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in the home directory which 
contains only one line /gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0/, the menus respond  
much quicker.

Before I forget...installing flash plugin the "normal fedora way" is 
just about impossible without the unit freezing up at some point. And 
running the installer with firefox open results in a sure crash (not 
enough RAM). But this worked pretty easily for me:
Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ and download the RPM 
(don't select the option to install it, just save it. Then close the 
browser and open the "download" folder and click on the file you 
downloaded and install it. Obviously the reset_overlay has to be removed 
or when the unit is restarted it would need to be installed again.