Fedora support for laplets

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Lailah <lailahfsf at gmail.com> writes:

> El lun, 12-11-2012 a las 16:29 -0600, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
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>> On 11/12/2012 07:55 AM, Lailah wrote:
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>> > El dom, 11-11-2012 a las 11:53 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió: 
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>> > > I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch screen 
>> > > which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of ways, 
>> > > including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on such a 
>> > > machine, and if so how (if at all) was the touch feature supported?
>> > > 
>> > > I've seen reasonably nice units from Dell and Lenovo, but no nice salespeople 
>> > > who would let me boot them from thumb drive.
>> > > 
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> Oh, I will explain a little bit more.
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>         I have a netbook that, originally, came with an Ubuntu 10.04.  I
> try other Linux distributions until I choose Fedora 16.  In this Fedora,
> Verne, battery life was fine.  Not the better but fine.  But when I
> installed Fedora 17, was other story.  My battery life was markedly
> shorter.  To install Jupiter improved energy consumption.  That's all.
> May be I failed finding tools to save energy...
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> I hope this clarified your doubts.

There is some documentation on
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Power_Management_Guide/index.html
which might be interesting for you.


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