Luka Renko

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Kubuntu Laptop Support

I am very interested in great laptop support in Kubuntu. Kubuntu is already best debian-based distribution in that regard, but there are some development that we need to follow closely to keep up-to-date.

Power Management

Ubuntu power management is based on hal, acpi-support scripts and powernowd. This is then controlled with gnome-power-manager (GNOME) and klaptop (KDE). Problem is that klaptop is quite buggy and unmaintained.

There is major work going on on [http://powersave.sourceforge.net powersave] & [http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29295 kpowersave] solution: see KubuntuPowersave for details.

Network Management

For mobile users, good network management is key. Kubuntu is currently lacking in wireless management tools (wifimonitor, knemo). There are some alternatives:

• [http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net wlassistant]

  • not in Dapper yet, but may be easier to get in than networkmanager
  • still no WPA support

• [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager networkmanager]

  • older version (0.5.1) is included in Dapper (with lots of patches to work with Ubuntu network stack)
  • KDE front-end (knetworkmanager) requires latest (0.6) version.

  • latest (0.6.x) is just discussed in [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=139334 forums]

  • initiative for installer script for Dapper - see [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=144820 here]

Testing

• Kubuntu on my notebook: ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNW8240/Kubuntu"]
• Kubuntu on my desktop

Bugs

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs Bugs reported by me]

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