[olug] Lenovo

Justin Reiners justin at hotlinesinc.com
Mon Oct 12 16:37:09 CDT 2015


Have you enabled laptop-mode-tools?

sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

I know sometimes without it your laptop is always running at full core
speed. laptop mode tools should enable speedstep on your processors,
cooling things down a bit..


link for reading up on it:
http://www.unixmen.com/laptop-mode-tools-extend-laptop-battery-life/ I
always use fedora, and have very good luck with it, But I am a RHEL NIX guy
by heart.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I will try Lubuntu I am downloading it now and try it to see it works
> better
>
>
> Kelly
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Sean Sinclair <seanfsinclair at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried LUbuntu, XUbuntu, or Mint?
> >
> > On 10/12/2015 02:57 PM, Kelly Williams wrote:
> >
> >> I got a lenovo that I bought from a school sale. Its a x100e, AMD Neo
> 1.6
> >> cpu 2 gb ram. Runs very warm when using 14.04 and fan runs not stop at
> >> full
> >> speed. I have mate installed. Just looki, ng for something that is up to
> >> date. Right now I have ubuntu 10.04 installed just to use it for on the
> >> go.
> >> Is there anything out there that is light weight..
> >>
> >> Kelly
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