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Sucking power

Posted Sep 13, 2007 3:12 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Sucking power by mrons
Parent article: LinuxConf.eu wrapup

My guess is that some of what we consider userspace, they consider part of the OS (specifically, all those cool KDE and Gnome features). I think Windows has paid a cost for the tighter integration (more security issues) but might also have seen some benefits in the power area.

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Sucking power

Posted Sep 13, 2007 15:57 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Of course, in our case I would think that the Qt and Gtk+ libraries should
be able to deal with much of those problems themselves, centralizing the
problem. I suspect few people these days run apps that talk directly to
the X server.

Sucking power

Posted Sep 20, 2007 6:14 UTC (Thu) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]

Those libraries are dealing with the problem, look at the new polling functions in Glib such as g_timeout_add_seconds ().