Dangling Gubbo wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Use Windows, be impotent (the laptop heating issue). However, I think
>> therein lies a perfect explanation. Windows users have already made an
>> incompetent choice, thus they are not potent. What harm would some boiling
>> laptop do?
>>
> Yet, for what its worth, my Toshiba Laptop runs considerably hotter using
> Linux. Windows makes some attempt at throttling the CPU and disabling
> (through ACPI) hardware that isn't in use.
>
> Linux just says "I don't know how to do that".
]$ rpm -qi cpuspeed | tail -n4
cpuspeed is a daemon that dynamically changes the speed
of your processor(s) depending upon its current workload
if it is capable (needs Intel Speedstep, AMD PowerNow!,
or similar support).
http://carlthompson.net/Software/CPUSpeed
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Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5
17:29:48 up 76 days, 17:46, 5 users, load average: 0.53, 0.95, 0.78
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