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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX systems
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:40:14 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Salvador Mirzo  <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>
>I run OpenBSD and I believe we don't have programs such as powertop or
>tlp around here.  I'm going to look into the BIOS.  There are some Intel
>features there that I could disable.  Some virtualization technology.  I
>have enabled them and I saw that the OpenBSD kernel notices them.  But I
>doubt I use any of that.

There is something similar available for BSD called powermon(1).  As much
as I am a fan of BSD and as much as I bemoan the horrible linux bloat and
linux's move away from modularism, I have to say that in general BSD is
a poor choice for laptops, if only because ACPI support for BSD isn't 
very good.
--scott 

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