Re: UNIX systems

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

>
I run OpenBSD and I believe we don't have programs such as powertop or
tlp around here.  I'm going to look into the BIOS.  There are some Intel
features there that I could disable.  Some virtualization technology.  I
have enabled them and I saw that the OpenBSD kernel notices them.  But I
doubt I use any of that.

>
There is something similar available for BSD called powermon(1).  As much
as I am a fan of BSD and as much as I bemoan the horrible linux bloat and
linux's move away from modularism, I have to say that in general BSD is
a poor choice for laptops, if only because ACPI support for BSD isn't
very good.

Even NetBSD?  (I never tried NetBSD.)  I probably agree with you.  What
I don't like about GNU systems is the quality of manuals.  On OpenBSD,
there's a manual for every driver in the system.  There are the manuals
called intro (for each section of the manual system).

But maybe I should really run a GNU system that can be well tuned to a
notebook such as mine.  It would be hard to say good-bye to OpenBSD, but
perhaps I should only run it on a desktop system.

By the way, I can't find a program called powermon on OpenBSD.  Perhaps
OpenBSD doesn't have it.