I disagree here. I would use ext3, because of the journal. A laptop is very rarely used in such stable environment as a desktop, and I would choose a the additional fs-security over few minutes more runtime anytime. But of course I understand your point.
I use my laptop for school and work. Unfortunately, after coming home last night and falling asleep doing my homework, the laptop battery ran out. I would definately never use anything except a journalling file system. Currently using reiser.
> 2) Which Window manager to use ?
> I usually use gnome/metacity as desktop environments, however, I find > them both power and resource consuming, any suggestions ? I use Openbox (on my Pentium 75 Notebook with 14MB ram), but any *Box or Windowmaker, even enlightenment should do. Here http://www.windowmaker.org/features-performance.html is a nice comparison between some Windowmanagers.
I'm using Gnome on mine. Another environment to check out might be xfce4, it looks rather impressive.
fluxbox is nice (the devel builds support AA, but no tabs at first glance). I also think windowmaker is a very good choice, as well.
> 3) APM or ACPI ?
> I have tried both and can't make a choice, does anyone have any > experience to share ? My Notebook is to old for ACPI *g*.
If you have a choice, great. I've got a new centrino laptop, and I'm unsure of apm support. But I can guarantee that most of it is acpi (processor scaling, thermal sensor, etc).
> 4) Which kernel to use ?
> I am a bit lost here, I use the gs-sources because of the cpu speed > scaling options, but I do not know if this is the best choice. I use gentoo-sources, but don't ask me why. I couldn't give a solid reason.
I was using gs-sources, but had some trouble getting dri working on the radeon in this machine, so I switched to 2.4.22-pre3-ac1. Works like a charm, including ACPI support.
> 5) Framebuffer or not ?
> Is framebuffer power consuming ? I would choose framebuffer over X anytime, because its a lot less CPU/Memory consuming. I was told that Links and Mplayer run in FB without problems.
I use X mainly, but I still have the framebuffer enabled. I'm having some nasty issues switching back and forth between console an X that I havent looked into solving. It depends on your use. Do you merely open alot of xterms and do your work in there? You might be better off with framebuffer with 12 (instead of 6) consoles, or use screen.
Good luck.
-Chris I
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