On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 01:45 +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > if the all brand new XO-focused software doesn't already do this > > We're building a platform, and have been completely and brutally > transparent about our progress. Software built on our platform will > keep improving rapidly along a number of axes, power management being > one, and even more rapidly if folks jump in and help us with the work. > Patches welcome ;) > > > So you may end up needing a tool that applies heuristics and > > overrides the CPU > > requests of poor programs. > > As an anecdote, I spend a non-trivial amount of time working in > disconnected environments using battery power on my non-XO laptop, and > I've been obtaining noticeable battery life gains by manually > SIGSTOPping Firefox when not in use. Now, I usually have about 70-200 > tabs open -- which may be an edge case, but _shouldn't_ be: > programmers need to learn that when I'm not actively using their > software, it shouldn't be _doing_ stuff on my machine without a very > good reason.
Also, lots of people in the FLOSS world are realizing that their software needs to run on small devices (mobile/embedded projects/alliances etc.). Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
