Re: proposal - Debian laptop package/distribution
On Tuesday 31 August 1999, at 22 h 28, the keyboard of Werner Heuser
<wehe@snafu.de> wrote:
> This is a drop-in replacement for the standard "update" daemon
> that is specially tailored for notebooks to reduce
> unnecessary hard disk spin-ups.
...
> If we think this program is worth to be packaged. I
> can contact the developers or try to package it by myself.
I've made an UNOFFICIAL package of it:
ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/debian/UNOFFICIAL/
It uses Debian diversions to replace properly /sbin/update... and restore it if you choose to purge mobile-update.
I did not test a lot for power savings, concentrating on proper packaging instead.
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