Best Linux Distro For Battery Life?

Topic. I'm looking for a distro I can use in airports for quick web access and extended battery life.
Thanks.

 

May want to check this, this, and this. I would guess something such as those made specifically for netbooks would be the best, naturally, but....whatever. :GEEK:

 

Alright....Thanks for the links.

 

looking for that too thanx

 

Google, my friends. It's amazing. :twitcy:

 

I tried Google before posting....couldn't really get a clear answer.

 

That's because there isn't a "best"

Some may be better by default, but all can be easily configed to use less battery.

 

Well, I wound up installing Ubuntu, first post on NBR using it

 

To save battery live, just make sure you undervolt your processor under Linux.

Thanks to the extended community, it is now very simple in Ubuntu and its derivatives (of which I prefer Linux Mint).

PS: the "best" linux distro for you is the one you build for yourself
based on arch, gentoo, debian and maybe slackware or puppy. -)

 

Like Bungalo Bill said, there isn't any "best distro" for anything because they're all amalgamations of the same packages; distros are just the Linux kernel + their unique set of packages.

 

A linux distro which boots to RAM could be more battery saving than the rest, as it would not need HDD to run...

FaunOS (based on Arch) on USB stick (or small distros like puppy and slitaz - you have to work to customize them for you - boot to RAM, too) could be an option for airports! A distro on usb stick also adds to the security.

 

Theoretically such a distro would consume less power, but an active HD only consumes about 2.5W; an idling HD consumes only 0.5W.

 

1-2 Watt is not little, especially on a small subnotebook (like my Dell Latitude X1)
one takes to the airports and like. Te processor undervolting hardly saves more (on my ULV processor with the default TDP=5Watt).

 

Seconded on the undervolting (battery lasts almost an hour longer with things undervolted). I also find that

Code:

echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

In my /etc/rc.local helps keep the hard drive accesses down, which also improves the battery life.

You should also check into powertop, see what keeps waking your machine up. I'd turn my Bluetooth off if I didn't use it for a mouse and for my phone as a modem, because it's the last thing that keeps sending wakeup events to the USB hub.

 

I understand, just saying that's where I got the links.

Nice! Congrats.

 

i dont think it has nothing todo with which linux it has todo with what devices is powered on that you dont really need etc..

just tweak it well and ubuntu should do good

 

Probably true with any distro.