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• Intel?? (Score:2)

  by batukhan ( 4849151 ) writes:

  Then why the hell Intel processors have so shitty power management in linux?

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Kjella ( 173770 ) writes:

    Because the Linux money is in the server/workstation/cloud market, where sleep states and battery life means very little. According to StatCounter the Linux desktop web market share was 1.85% and on Steam it’s 0.67%. There’s of course Android too but it runs on ARM, so nobody really works to optimize Linux for x86 laptops except maybe a few from Google making Chromebooks.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by That Ordinary Guy ( 6159720 ) writes:

      Good point! Also, Linux often use generic power management features defined by some kind of standard. Of course, Linux open source code has some specific tweaks to handle specific vendor hardware but in the end, it is lacking a lot of functionalities implemented by vendor binary blobs available under Windows and Apple. Some vendors provide Linux binary blobs for their hardware and I have used them quite a few times (your kernel becomes tainted). A very few provide their full up to date API in order to handl
• • Re: (Score:2)

    by rtb61 ( 674572 ) writes:

    Too late, big developments in Russia, China and India. So probably yeah, you would see a whole lot less coming out of Russia, China and India as they will inevitably host their own forks, no longer trusting the USA for anything what so ever. So contributions from those sources will drop, then there is the EU, how far off is an EU hosted Linux because they also no longer trust the USA. USA hosted tech is likely to suffer in this environment, especially FOSS as the US kernel will mostly only end up with US co
• Because, like quarterly profits… (Score:3)

  by fleeped ( 1945926 ) writes: on Saturday January 04, 2020 @07:50PM (#59587448)

  They should always only go up. Yes, that sounds sustainable.

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• A CoC will (Score:1)

  by AHuxley ( 892839 ) writes:

  do that.
  Return to code productivity.
  Work on a CoC does not add the computer code needed for the productive parts of a OS.

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