Let's reconsider some more applications installed by default

[Eric Griffith]

On Aug 28, 2015 15:29, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Michael, Question for you and the mailing list at large. What about non
> > graphical applications?
> >
> > The one in particular that comes to mind is thermald-- Intel's thermal
> > daemon for ensuring Intel CPU's laptops and tablets do not overheat and
stay
> > within usual temperature ranges. Its a relatively small package, and
while
> > this is anecdotal evidence, it seemed to keep my laptop a few degrees
> > coolers during compiles. Minor addition for a better user experience
(cooler
> > laps). I've got a spec file for it laying around that use privately,
though
> > I know there's a copr that hosts it as well.
>
> If something can be done for laptop heat and battery sucking less, I'm
> all for it being included by default. I can't seriously use Fedora on
> my Mac laptops because they get too hot, produce MCE errors, and have
> terrible battery life (worse than Windows running with CSM-BIOS mode
> boot, which itself is half the battery life of OS X on the same
> hardware).
>
> I recall that hibernation isn't supposed to be used by default anymore
> but rather power off, but the other day in a low power situation,
> gnome put my laptop into hibernation which of course isn't configured
> correctly on Fedora so it doesn't work (with or without resume=) and
> that risks data loss and corruption.
>
> The problem with all of this is when model specific configuration
> becomes necessary. If that's avoidable, then great.

No configuration necessary on either of my two laptops. Install package,
"systemctl enable thermald" restart, done.
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