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GNOME Power Manager project gets underway

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-03-24 04:14. GNOME System Tools

GNOME Power Manager is a GNOME session daemon that acts as a policy agent on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel, hotplug, udev, and HAL. GNOME Power Manager listens for HAL events and responds with user-configurable reactions. Currently it supports UPS's, laptop batteries and AC adaptors. Its goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and other hacks.

Linux power management on laptops sucks. Project Utopia is all about making things "Just Work" and that's how power-management should be.

The site can be found here with lots of screenshots.

There is a CVS repository available with the latest and greatest code.

Note: The project is at alpha status and at this stage I’m looking for preliminary feedback on initial concepts, and people’s views on how this should be done.

Power Management: Something long overdue

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-04-10 03:30.

I recently build a brand new system with a Athlon 64 Processor and a X800 XL GPU which suck up power like crazy.

I use Fedora Core as my primary OS and switch over to Win98 for a game or 2. The problem is Linux Power Managemnt in most distros free or paid pretty much sucks, worse than Win95 and some type of complex or simple power management in Linux is long long overdue.

If Linux tends to be a challange to any other OS out there, it should have some sort of power management that is easy to use and does not require the user to perform brain surgery on the Kernal before it will take effect; its about time Linux got out of the constant and stupid "devl" stages and became something of a solid, reliable and user friendly final release.

I applaud the effort this project is making in the direction of power management which will make the lives of geeks and non geeks alike a bit more easier.

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