That's what I'm talkin bout :-)
-phil
On Nov 29, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Jessica Mahoney wrote:
Thinking about this for a while, I decided to post it. May not be
much, but it is something.
In July 2007 I acquired a brand new Compaq Presario V6000Z laptop.
It came with the "High Capacity 6-Cell Battery" (6,000 mAh
battery), an AMD Turion 64 X2 @ 1.8GHz, and I also got the "Imprint
Finish" so I could get the FireWire and additional USB ports. For
what it is, $1,000 wasn't that bad.
It came with Windows Vista Home Basic. This system took about two
minutes to boot, and sucked the battery dry in 90 minutes, even
with all power-saving settings enabled (eeps!).
Then I installed Linux on it. Linux had some serious stability
issues, and even with everything I did, it was never all that
stable, but it booted in about a minute. Linux did do better with
battery time, clocking 2 hours. True, that's not much better, but
still.
Well, I've been using FreeBSD for my servers, and I have had a few
FreeBSD desktops off and on over the years, so I decided to give it
a shot. After installing FreeBSD and configuring the kernel/world,
and then installing some ports, I noticed something wildly
different, so different, that its freaking amazing. FreeBSD boots
in a mere fifteen seconds (kernel: 11s; services: 2s; gdm+Xorg:
instant; gnome-desktop: 2s). FreeBSD is just as amazing with
battery time, as I can now get not just two, but four hours of
battery time. Plus, its just as rock-solid-will-keep-running-until-
the-sun-blows-up stable as I remember from every other machine I've
used as a FreeBSD desktop.
Quick recap:
Windows Vista: 2 minute boot, 90 minutes of battery
Linux: one minute boot, 120 minutes of battery
FreeBSD: 15 second boot, 240 minutes of battery
FreeBSD is pure awesomeness, made of awesome and win, featuring
Power, Performance, Stability, and Reliability. I have also
learned (from my laptop) that FreeBSD is also a Green OS, as it
causes the hardware to use less power than other systems.
~Jessica
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