Improve Power Usage / Battery Life In Linux With TLP

There are various tweaks that you can apply to your laptop to save battery power, but many of them depend on the hardware, Linux distribution, some are outdated or too hard to apply for regular users and so on. TLP is an advanced power management command line tool for Linux that tries to apply these [...]

How To Use Hybrid Suspend In Ubuntu

Firstly, here’s what hybrid suspend does:initially, the computer is suspended to RAM, which is quick to suspend / resume but it also uses some powerif the computer doesn’t wake up after a configurable amount of time, suspend to disk is used so the computer stops using any power (it’s the same as if it was [...]

Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

PowerTOP is a command line tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and provides suggestions on how to improve power usage.PowerTOP 2.1, released a few days ago, introduces support for Intel GPUs and for cores without P-states, a new manual page along with an option to specify workload to run during measurement and an [...]