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Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

Posted Nov 13, 2007 10:39 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112)
In reply to: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu by jwb
Parent article: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

Ubuntu has not shipped laptop-mode, ever.  It has never even entered the main repository.

Of course, you are welcome to install arbitrary packages from universe and tweak them to suit
your needs, but you must also take responsibility for the results.


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Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

Posted Nov 13, 2007 15:42 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

Ubuntu shipped laptop-mode in the "main" component (aka the official, supported component) in
Warty, Hoary, and Breezy.  That's three times, not "never" as you say.

Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu

Posted Nov 13, 2007 16:02 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]

You're right, I didn't look back that far (over two years now).  That laptop-mode is an
Ubuntu-specific tool which is long obsolete and will be removed from universe as well.

In any case, it was removed from main when laptop-mode-tools was added (in 6.06), so it
remains true that Ubuntu did not in fact ship them both.

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