Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution
mattwell@us.ibm.com schrieb:
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> I hope you decide to keep this discussion here. It seems very
> apropriate for this forum and I for one am interested in it.
>
> One thing I would like to see when installing Debian on a laptop
> would be a series of setups that optimise for low power consumption
> such as increased intervals between syncs etc.
Do you mean this one? It's mentioned at Kenneth E. Harkers page:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
Mobile Update Daemon
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/linux/tips.html
This is a drop-in replacement for the standard "update" daemon
that is specially tailored for notebooks to reduce
unnecessary hard disk spin-ups.
Didn't look up the 'sync' man pages, wether there is
some tailoring possible. Also I'm not sure wether
this is a good solution. AFAIK there has been some
discussion in the mailing lists. But unfortenately
the laptop lists don't seem to be archived :(
If we think this program is worth to be packaged. I
can contact the developers or try to package it by myself.
But this maybe a to big task for me. I think it requires
some more hardware knowledge. So if you like to do the job ...
Cheers
:-> werner
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