From: 1800@DEV.NULL   
      
   kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
      
   > Salvador Mirzo   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.   
      
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