Fuduntu 2012.3

[sea]

Since i have had some serious problems installing F17 in my new appartment, i had to try another distro for my netbook.
After some reading of one of the Gnome threads here, an article posted there lead me to fuduntu.

Gotta say, for netbook/laptop, that one's really awesome, as as the netbook shows a battery life time of ~8hrs+, while the best i had achieved was 7:30 with E16 on F15, but that was not re-producable

It brings a mix of (desktop experience, as i 'feel' it):
* Stable fedora
* Gnome'ish/MacOS'ish design (AWN bottom-bar)
* some basic Compiz pre-tweaks for eye-candy/catching
* an out of the box boot time of about 20 secs.

Drawbacks so far:
* I cant find systemd-analyze to install
* Uses Banshee (preinstalled: mono) instead of rhytmbox
* "add to adm grp" is not available on first boot

Something one might argue vice-versa:
* Chromium
* Dropbox
* Google-docs instead of libreoffice or abiword+gnumeric
* Google-Mail-link
* VLC
* lisenced flash + mp3
Are all preinstalled as well.
While i like chromium and vlc, imho dropbox and google-docs in combination are an overkill.

After a few hours playing around, i like it.
http://www.fuduntu.org/

[Adunaic]

Any idea what they do to get the battery life? I use powertop and I notice that "jupiter" (the program they use) tweaks that. Is there anything else that you can see they are doing to tweak it all?

[smr54]

I'm not quite sure what they do--they do seem to lower the screen brightness a bit, which can, on the UX31E add literally over an hour to battery life. I just tried it off a USB, and it was showing about an hour more battery life (using acpi) than was Arch or Fedora.

[sea]

No, i could not figure out yet, as i havent checked that deep.

However, my own experience with E16 were i had acheived 7:30 on my netbook, i did have ALOT of transprence windows tweaks, but could not achieve anything close to that with anything else (lxde, e17, gnome,kde,xfce) and since i do prefer darker screens i did not experience such a battery gain, or have used to wrong settings.

I dont have an UX31E, but regardless of that, i would agree that reducing the brightness should save battery life time. But as far i can tell, it doesnt seem to be reduced. At least not lower than i had set on my laptop running Fedora 16/17/W7, or had previously on the netbook runniny any distro.

However, as it boots lots faster without tweaking than fedora (f17) on my netbook, i tend to say the battry lifetime is achieved be reducing services.

[bob]

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