On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:12:16AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Some time ago, I wrote a small list of hints for people using > Debian/Linux on noteboks. > > During that time I, I was more or less focused on hints > regarding low memory, HD space and power (battery) > consumption. > > [...] > > The page is at <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/notebooks/> and > although most of the hints are Debian-centric, some of the are > even operating system-agnostic. > > [...] > > Looking forward for any feedback, Roger...
This is a very nice inititiative. I was looking for something like this, especially now that the Battery-Powered mini HOWTO is so out-of-date (1997). I have some criticisms too, of course: It would be nice if you elaborated some more on the why's and how's of some of the guidelines you give, perhaps by refering to the relevant section in the Battery-Powered mini HOWTO (it's not entirely obsolete). Also, some of your tips have some unexpected effects: I tried the noatime option, and mutt's system for detecting incoming mail in my mailboxes stopped working :(. Have you considered taking over the Battery-Powered mini HOWTO? I don't mean to give you more work :), but it would be nice if it got updated. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz2 #1 Wed Feb 27 17:41:43 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs
