RE: Debian Users...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Ellenshøj Andersen [mailto:andersa@fys.ku.dk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:32 PM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian Users...
>
>
> On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:58, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > All the eye candy stresses the cpu and there are some
> background daemons
> > that stress both the cpu and fire up the hardrive (although
> linux does
> > that anyway every about 30 secs especially with journaled
> file systems)
> > All this takes battery power (how much depends on your cpu
> and setup).
>
> Have anybody actually seen any hard measurements on this? I
> am not gonna
> compare desktops because I like KDE. I don't think that it performs
> significantly worse than other wms battery wise.
>
> Anders
>
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While KDE was specifically mentioned, I don't think anyone is implying that any other Window Manager magically doesn't use more CPU/RAM than a plain old console.
I use IceWM on my puny old laptops ~because~ it has very few bells and whistles.
Logic can be used to discern that having more active applications running at any one time will use more resources and therefore lower battery life.
It does not matter if the additional applications are part of your desktop or window manager or a cron job to delete temp files or old logs. They all use more resources than just editing a file with vi or something.
-Jason
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