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Old 06-15-2006, 12:00 PM   #1
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Distro Uses Less Energy?


So which Linux uses the less energy? I'm using a laptop, so I want to conserve energy for it to last longer.
 
Old 06-15-2006, 12:02 PM   #2
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moving to hardware
 
Old 06-15-2006, 12:03 PM   #3
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I would assume the distros that are more lightweight and don't have as much eye candy and background processes. I would say the Slackware family (if you don't go crazy with the packages) or Vector Linux.
 
Old 06-15-2006, 12:09 PM   #4
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Energy is always conserved.
 
Old 06-15-2006, 01:02 PM   #5
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Maybe in place of slackware, something like Gentoo, where you optimise everything to minimize cpu cycles? On most newer distros, you can take advantage of cpufreq scaling and suspend-to-ram and others.
 
  


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