On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > The only "problem" i have with linux on a laptop is the battery life time!!. It > seems always shorter than with windows.
Of course, if you install a journaling filesystem (ext3 or reiserfs) since those kind of fs write constantly on the disk, it shortens battery life (FAT and NTFS do not have a journal). When I reverted back to ext2 on both of my laptops, I measured that battery life was on average the same. I might add that you might want to configure CPU Frequency Scaling in the kernel since it enables Linux to shut down parts of the CPU when they are are not needed. Saves battery too. > Patrick > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:44:32 +0100 (BST) > Mick Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm about to get a new laptop and I was wondering whether somebody could comment > > > on the usability of Gentoo on a laptop system. > > > I can see two arguments: > > > - laptop with little resources - customization of gentoo might be advantagous ... > > > - laptop with little resources - all that compiling will kill you! > > > > > My first ever gentoo install was on this 1ghz, 128mb > > laptop. I did a stage 1 install, it took a while, and with > > hind sight I would have left a kde compile to much later > > (especially as I am a gnome user at heart). > > IIRC it took about 5 days to install, but i did have to > > work sleep and annoy the kids. But now i have a laptop that > > gives the impression of running quicker though i havent > > benchmarked anything Customization is in fact the sinews of war, it helps you save battery and hav your laptop run faster. I installed Gentoo on a PII 233 w 128 Mo RAM Laptop (from stage1), took a week, but then everything was fine, running smoothly and quickly. I might add that during compile time, if your laptop has a NIC (which is the case in most of the recent laptops), you can use distcc to reduce notably the compile time. HTH, Jonathan > > -- > > Mick Gower http://www.takingnonotice.com > > uptime 07:34:13 up 10 days, 7:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.10 > > I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, > > we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. > > -- Jack Handley > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley." -- "Airplane"
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