On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:20:35PM +0000, xsdg wrote:
> hrm... what's the difference between this [battery-stats] package and
> ibam? I've been running ibam every minute (:o) through a cronjob for
> the past few months. I admittedly have looked at the website for
> neither battery-stats nor ibam, but from what I can tell, both gather
> statistics about the batter{y,ies}, and both are able to help the user
> make some sense of these statistics through gnuplot...
ibam simply tries to predict how long you can run before a recharge (or
how long before the battery is fully charged). It does that vastly
better than e.g. my BIOS :-)
battery-stats has a slightly different aim - it collects statistics
about the battery charge over *longer* periods. By looking at the stats
you can (or should be able to) see how your battery responds to
"wear-and-tear" over a period of e.g. a month.
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