Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:57, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:40:05PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: a. Lots of background services which are started by default. Background services are either doing something (in which case the user expects

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-23 Thread Derek Broughton
shirish शिरीष wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:57, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:40:05PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: a. Lots of background services which are started by default. Background services are either doing something (in which case the user

Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have a friend who has a ubuntu laptop . She was complaining that the OS eats her batteries more than Windows XP. A little searching around gave me many examples of this. For e.g. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/laptop-testing-team/2009-February/001239.html and

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:37:01PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: Has there been any thought of having a distribution specifically for laptop users (similar to the initiative taken for netbooks - Ubuntu Netbook remix) otherwise laptop owners have to go through quite few hoops to make it less

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Matthew Garrett wrote: What would the differences be? If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is more or

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is more or

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Patrick Goetz
Martin Owens wrote: What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy conservation mode). Based on having spent a few days reading through the massive ext4 debate that occurred between the 2.6.29

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 22:16, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can see it also effecting these new cloud computing servers

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it suffers from similar constraints) I can

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the disk from being able to go to sleep. The bottom line is optimizing for performance is

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:40:05PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: a. Lots of background services which are started by default. Background services are either doing something (in which case the user expects them to be doing so), are idle (and therefore not consuming any energy) or are buggy (in