This video is an interview with the great minds behind the open source. It show the video interviews of Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and many people who work hard in making open source software as it is today.This is also a documentary of how Linux was born and how it revolutionizes the world of Operating System, The history of GNU, The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Movement.

PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle. PowerTOP combines various sources of information from the kernel into one convenient screen so that you can see how well your system is doing, and which components are the biggest problem. With this tool you can find what software is using the most power on your system. Especially notebook users will benefit from reduced power consumption - there will be more time left on battery power.

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The Ramlog project lets you keep your system logs in RAM while your machine is running and copies them to disk when you shut down. If you are running a laptop or mobile device with syslog enabled, Ramlog might help you increase your battery life or the life of the flash drive on your mobile device. As a side effect of using Ramlog, you will be less likely to be caught out by a daemon that suddenly starts sending a message to syslog every 30 seconds and saps your battery keeping the hard disk spinning.

Ben Martin Wrote a How-to in using this great opensource project. Read his article.

Ubuntu MID Edition (Mobile Internet Devices) . Ubuntu MID, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, is redefining what can be done in mobile computing. Ubuntu MID Edition, a fully open source project, gives the full Internet, with no compromise. Since it is an open source project it highly flexible and customizable.

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