On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:40, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Seth Nickell"> > > > This is exactly the obscure sort of technical choice we *shouldn't* > > present if we are really targeting home users. There are options though... > > For example, what about having a low battery mode that mounts the > > filesystem as ext2 (you can mount ext3 filesystems as ext2 as far as I > > understand, right?). Things like that that end up being transparent. > > I agree. At install time, we can have a selection like (the text is poopie, > but you get the idea): > > [x] Desktop > > Include utilities and enhancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at its > best on a desktop computer. > > [ ] Laptop > > Include utilities and enchancements that allow GNOME OS to perform at > its best on a laptop or portable, such as power saving, support for > special laptop hardware with PCMCIA, and subpixel antialiasing for LCD > screens. [1] > > Then we choose a *whole bunch* of stuff like noflushd, pcmcia modules by > default, ext2, subpixel AA for laptop users, maybe even VPN software. > Desktop users get ext3, and run more daemons by default depending on > usefulness (more daemons on notebooks means more chance of waking them up > with logging and hard disk activity). + anacron + pmud/apmd + sleepd (needs some loving though) :) -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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