On most distros installations, there is a package “laptop-mode” tools included.
The package is meant to ensure power saving features on laptops.
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Running Linux on laptops not battery efficient? Check again!
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Detect monitoring voltage, temperature, fan-rpm sensor values with linux lm-sensors!
Friday, January 15th, 2010What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
Easy way to reinstall all previously installed packages on new linux distro release version
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
Foxconn Linux netbook hits the FCC
Monday, December 28th, 2009Foxconn’s planning to launch a netbook that is both XP and linux capable.
According to Liliputing, the linux will be a customized distribution called FoxOS
Ubuntu 9.10 made available today!
Friday, October 30th, 2009Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) rolls out version 5.4
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Red Hat rolled out its Enterprise Linux 5.4 today.
Touting features such as
New enterprise KVM included alongside XEN virtualization technologies,
Clustering updates,
Support for XFS filesystem,
Updated userspace tools for EXT4 filesystem,
etc
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Thursday, August 20th, 2009The kernel is the core of the linux operating system.
Most linux distros come with prebuilt kernel that aims to support as much hardware as possible and kernels are constantly evolving and upgraded with new inclusions to support for latest hardware.
The updated linux kernel sources are kept and maintained by www.kernel.org.
Though most distros include a prebuilt kernel to support most desktops, laptops and servers, there are ways whereby the kernel can be optimized by tuning it only to support the hardware that the linux OS will be installed in. This will increase performance and boot time of the system.
To learn more about configuring and building the kernel, there is a very good book about linux kernels and it is published by O’Reilly. The title of the book is “Linux Kernel in a Nutshell” by author Greg Kroah-Hartman. And in line with the idea of opensource and GPL, the author has made his book to be free for downloading online and has declared it under the Creative Commons license such that anyone can download and redistribute it. For those whom still prefer to hold a physical book in their hands, they can still purchase it from their local bookstores.
To configure and build kernels more easily, SGLNX recommends Kernelcheck, which is an automated script with an easy user interface. “Linux in a Nutshell” can be used to compliment Kernelcheck when configuring and understanding the kernel parameters and options.
Wikipedia’s entry on Kernel(Computing)
Ubuntuforums Kernelcheck HOWTO thread
Kernelcheck’s blog
Hannah Montana gets her own linux distro!
Friday, August 14th, 2009Signs of linux getting popular and getting endorsements from celebrities?
Tapping on opensource to increase her fan base?
DesktopLinux review of Hannah Montana Linux distro
OSNews : Hannah Montana… Linux ?
LinuxToday : Hannah Montana Linux X86 Basic Edition
The distro is aptly named the Hannah Montana Linux X86 Basic Edition..
What were they planning down the product roadmap?
Hannah Montana AMD64 Server Edition
Hannah Montana X86 Education Edition
Hannah Montana UltraSPARC T1 Edition
FYI, Distrowatch.com did not list this Hannah Montana linux distro in its database.
Sing a Miley Cyrus song while you download the distro here.
