My 2 cents on the whole Fedora to succeed as global wide deployed desktop are...

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Sep 3 19:00:50 UTC 2007


Stewart Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 19:38 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Yes I don't need cpuspeed, as I *really* like listening to the sound of my CPU 
>> fan at full speed for no good reason, I also like my powerbil being as high as 
>> possible.
>>
>> I can see merits on the general idea here, but the concept of desktops not 
>> needing powermanagement is from the previous century.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
> 
> That's what I'm saying - Letting the user select is nice. Some machine's
> fans will blare, others not. Some Desktop CPU have throttle states,
> others none or not enough to make a big change.

The user will always have the choice. The question is only whether a 
list of all possible services make sense to ask in the installer. IMO, 
this is the distribution's responsibility. For cpuspeed, enable it by 
default if the hardware is capable. If the hardware is not capable, 
cpuspeed disables itself on start.

Rahul




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