On Jan 24, 2008 5:12 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 01:45 +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > > if the all brand new XO-focused software doesn't already do this > > > > We're building a platform, and have been completely and brutally > > transparent about our progress. Software built on our platform will > > keep improving rapidly along a number of axes, power management being > > one, and even more rapidly if folks jump in and help us with the work. > > Patches welcome ;) > > > > > So you may end up needing a tool that applies heuristics and > > > overrides the CPU > > > requests of poor programs. > > > > As an anecdote, I spend a non-trivial amount of time working in > > disconnected environments using battery power on my non-XO laptop, and > > I've been obtaining noticeable battery life gains by manually > > SIGSTOPping Firefox when not in use. Now, I usually have about 70-200 > > tabs open -- which may be an edge case, but _shouldn't_ be: > > programmers need to learn that when I'm not actively using their > > software, it shouldn't be _doing_ stuff on my machine without a very > > good reason. > > Also, lots of people in the FLOSS world are realizing that their > software needs to run on small devices (mobile/embedded > projects/alliances etc.). > > Tomeu
As a former market analyst, I have observed that every year, somebody is complaining about some aspect of Linux not being ready for the world, and that every year, the community deals with it. At one time it was said that Unix couldn't support enterprise computing, and in particular serious databases. IBM and Oracle became excellent counterexamples. Linux was too hard to install. Many distros worked on it, and Ubuntu has laid that complaint to rest. Linux wasn't ready for the desktop, however well it did on servers. Now Dell and others offer Linux preinstalled. (I get mine from Linux Certified in Sunnyvale.) This, that, and the other are wrong with XO software. But they soon won't be. This is a much more general phenomenon. At one time you couldn't get compilers to produce relocatable code. (Really) At about that time, you couldn't get a hard drive for a personal computer. Time marches on, and so does the state of the art. The Linux world is discovering time and space bloat. Since the solutions are shared, they will be taken up at a rate astonishing to those in the commercial world. BTW, thanks, Ivan and everybody. I'm sending people your way at every opportunity. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
