Hi Chris,

Nachricht vom Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 19:51:00:

> On 2003.07.11 07:27, Timo Boettcher wrote:
> 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.
I wouldn't use reiser, because of the lack of repairfs-tools.

> Another environment to check out might be
> xfce4, it looks rather impressive.

Got an url for that? screenshots?

>> > 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 didn't.

>> > 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?
Wasn't that the reason for wm's being developed? *g*
> You might be better off with framebuffer with 12 (instead of 6)
> consoles, or use screen. 
Thats not a question of FB, but of your inittab. I currently have 8
consoles.

> Good luck.

> -Chris I



 Timo


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