If you are passionate about the world of computing, surely the name of Fedora it will be, the less known. A) Yes 'to boat soon'You may not know how to tell me what it is or what not, although, if you are passionate about Linux operating systems and everything they can offer, there are many distributions and, depending on your needs, some will be more appropriate than others, you will surely know that Fedora is one of the most famous distributions in the entire ecosystem.
Going into a little more detail, tell you that Fedora is a Linux distribution that today is maintained by nothing less than Red Hat, an American multinational mainly dedicated to the development of open source applications for companies. Red Hat, among other things, is known for its enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or for the acquisition of the open source enterprise middleware provider JBoss.
Fedora has become one of the Linux distributions most used by users
As you can imagine and with this history it is not surprising that Fedora is currently one of the most interesting Linux distributions of the momentEven more so when the company assures us that they have devoted enough financial and professional funds to developing an update for the operating system with which to significantly improve the performance of the computer battery in which you decide to install it.
Going into a little more detail, tell you that all these news have been revealed by none other than Hans de Goede, current head of the desktop hardware enablement team. In the presentation of this new version it was made clear to us that several power management features have been enabled that can be activated by default in the different distributions to ensure that our system does not consume so much battery. Based on the results of the tests carried out, on a Lenovo ThinPad T440, it was able to increase your autonomy by almost 30%.
We're still a long way from Linux power management being optimal
As the head of the team in charge of developing these improvements has assured, currently and despite the fact that there are many people who work on the development of this distribution or any other, the truth is that in this field, that is, in energy management What does Linux do to the system, it should be clarified that not overly optimized so there is room for different developers to work and improve the current system.
If you are an advanced user of Linux, you will surely know that there are different tools for this ecosystem, such as TLPFor example, they offer advanced power management possibilities for Linux, although the truth is that we are talking about software that is quite difficult to handle since it does not even have a graphical interface, so these types of programs are not usually suitable or, at least easy to use, for anyone who starts with an operating system like Fedora.
Four basic points greatly increase the life of your battery
Going a little deeper we find that Fedora in its latest version now has four novelties that dramatically improve the battery life of your computer. Basically now we have:
- Ability to enable automatic sleep for USB Bluetooth controllers. This improvement saves about 0 watts.
- Auto suspend is enabled for Intel HDA codecs. Save about 0 watts.
- SATA Aggressive Link Power Management is enabled by default. With this you can save between 1 and 1 watts
- Enabling the Self Refresh Panel by default. It saves about 0 watts when it is available.
Thanks to all these improvements, it is possible to reduce the total consumption by about 2 watts, something that may sound like little but with the same it can be achieved increase the useful life of your laptop battery by up to 30%.