LukaRenko
Luka Renko
IRC: Lure (luka74)
Forums: luka74
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/people/lure
Email: MailTo(lure.net@gmail.com)
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]
- my notes on getting knetworkmanager on Dapper are on ["/KNetworkManager"] sub-page
Testing
- Kubuntu on my notebook: ["LaptopTestingTeam/HPNW8240/Kubuntu"]
- Kubuntu on my desktop
Bugs
[https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs Bugs reported by me - Still Open]
[https://launchpad.net/people/lure/+reportedbugs?field.omit_dupes.used= Bugs reported by me - All]