Optimise Your Laptop’s Battery Life With Linux

“All laptop users have something in common: we want our device’s
batteries to last longer. Whether it’s for the daily commute or the
flight home for Christmas, an extra 30 minutes of power means an
extra 30 minutes of entertainment. If you’re running a Linux-based
distribution on your netbook, there’s a lot you can do to squeeze
every last negatively charged ion from your power source. Here
we’re going to cover the best techniques that we’ve discovered.
Don’t worry if you’re not a netbook user, as much of this
information can be used on Linux laptops too. However, we’ve
specifically tailored our advice for netbooks as these seldom
include full-blown distros (and hence any easy way of compiling and
installing new software). We’re going to focus on Intel’s Moblin
and Canonical’s UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix), two of the most popular
Linux distributions for netbooks, but there’s absolutely no reason
why you can’t use a full-fat distribution on your device and make
the same changes to its power management.”

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