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 >> expects them to be doing so), are idle (and therefore not consuming any >> energy) or are buggy (in which case they should just be fixed).
Agreed - and this was triggered by a comparison to battery-life in Windows. Windows starts a heap of services too. > > Couldn't there be a use-case where there are background services which > are normal in a PC (read desktop) environment but perhaps are not > suited for laptops. There could be general tendencies, but many of us have simply stopped using desktop machines. My laptop runs _literally_ everything. It's my primary development testbed. > > The basic assumption being that most of the hardware is mostly a > generation or two older then desktop and is severly constrainted. I'm not at all sure that's a valid assumption. >> No. If there are kernel bugs that increase power consumption, they need >> fixing for desktops and servers as well as laptops. > > Right. Absolutely. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss