On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:17:50 -0500 "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to dual boot a fairly recent HP laptop into some flavor of > linux and I need it to have X (because I like GUIs) > I like Ubuntu but I hate unity and frankly battery life is a real > concern on this laptop. > > Is there a lightweight distro with really good power management out > of the box? Perhaps a distro designed specifically for laptops? I can't speak to specific flavors of power management, but a few thoughts... I agree on Unity, et al. I use XFCE on Debian Stable. Power management seems to be pretty good on my Lenovo T61. It's a light weight small footprint desktop that does the job. Debian stable, as the name suggests, is exactly that. Some of my machines have been running continuously since I put it on them almost a year ago, except for the occasional kernel upgrade. If you don't mind spending money, try dropping a solid state disk in to your laptop. It helps reduce power consumption, and will speed the thing up considerably. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
