Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Dagny <1800@DEV.NULL> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UNIX systems Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:41:47 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <878qoosm5w.fsf@DEV.NULL> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87v7sj8284.fsf@example.com> <87jz8hgqhd.fsf@DEV.NULL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:42:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c7122c8a99ee7e67a2cdc265c861d547"; logging-data="4156243"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18UmTDUxDGVHS9IdCXngcQZe7HllJ+ahJ0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:74+o56PnKoVmdWRVk11x5W679LQ= sha1:uYT8ObgQ2LREZwmjf7PwraYHOXw= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:27079 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.