OESF Portables Forum

Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Sharp ROMs => Topic started by: otprof on June 09, 2006, 01:59:41 pm

Title: Maximizing Battery Life
Post by: otprof on June 09, 2006, 01:59:41 pm
Newbie alert!  

I noticed that as of now with the Linux 2.6 kernel, OZ is installed on the microdrive (as is pdaXrom and OpenBSD, if I am not mistaken).  Cacko, however, is still installed in RAM, correct?  Or, at least the basic core of it in Cacko lite, with additional packages elsewhere?  Am I on the right track here?

My impression is that this would extend battery life because the Microdrive does not have to be working all of the time for basic OS operations.  I have looked around for battery life comparisons with no success.  Does anyone here have a sense of the relative battery life among the distros?
Title: Maximizing Battery Life
Post by: InSearchOf on June 09, 2006, 02:34:51 pm
Quote
Newbie alert!   

I noticed that as of now with the Linux 2.6 kernel, OZ is installed on the microdrive (as is pdaXrom and OpenBSD, if I am not mistaken).  Cacko, however, is still installed in RAM, correct?  Or, at least the basic core of it in Cacko lite, with additional packages elsewhere?  Am I on the right track here?

My impression is that this would extend battery life because the Microdrive does not have to be working all of the time for basic OS operations.  I have looked around for battery life comparisons with no success.  Does anyone here have a sense of the relative battery life among the distros?
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=130574\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

pdaXrom is still installed to the NAND except SL-C3000...

OpenBSD to my knowledge is completely installed to MD...