Powertop is an utility from Intel that finds software components that use more power than necessary and provides some tips to make battery life lasts longer.
On Ubuntu you can install it from synaptic sudo apt-get install powertop
On other linux systems you’ll have to compile it.
http://www.linuxpowertop.org/
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Linux power saving with Powertop
Posted in Laptop, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu, Utility on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »