[ubuntu-za] 11.04 like Windoooze

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Lee

On 03/05/11 09:53 AM, Lee Sharp wrote:
> You are not the only one.  Booth boot time and power have gone up.
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=home  10.04 had a focus on power
> an boot time.  Now, the focus is on new shiny.  But with this press, I
> am betting 11.10 the focus will be desktop stability (as Gnome 2 goes
> away) and 12.04 goes back to lean and mean.  And 12.04 is an LTS...  I
> wonder what my upgrade path will be? :)

In Ubuntu's defense, the power consumption / heat issue is an upstream
kernel issue that is present in every distribution that uses any kernel
version 2.6.36 and above, and the cause of the problem have not been
found yet so there isn't a fix available at this time.

-Jonathan