power management experiences with joyride-1572

[Martin Langhoff]

On Jan 25, 2008 2:12 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Also, lots of people in the FLOSS world are realizing that their
> software needs to run on small devices (mobile/embedded
> projects/alliances etc.).

OLPC and powertop are making that very visible, and people are
learning/reacting pretty well. Within a few weeks of powertop being
released, the worst offenders in most distros had been fixed -- I was
amazed. The fixes took a while to percolate, but on a current linux
distro, laptop gets a lot more battery life (~50%) than 1 year ago
now.

Alas, memory use is a harder one...


martin