Some of us need power for our computing clusters; some of us need battery capacity for their laptop
I didn't compile a kernel for a while,
but last time I lost myself in menu-config and I saw I could build Linux kernel for a high consuming datacenter or for my laptop
It is a legitimate choice to compile Linux kernel to enhance calculus or to save my battery on my laptop
is it really Linux kernel that increase power consuming or is main stream Ubuntu with Gnome Applets burning Watts for nothing ?

On my apple laptop I quit energy-vorous applications like Google Earth, and lower down contrast to get more left battery time. And it works
I would hate that the seismic cluster of my Institute get less cylcles but if power is a constraint (think about japan crisis) I know I could fix my Linux kernel to be more energy-saving. And I am quite confident I could get the better ratio.
On my laptop I've to choose the best distro. Who could help me?

http://www.elysee.fr/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

It would be clearer if he bans 4.3.0 : the whitehouse is copying the EzPublish french site

Marc, Paris

I've done upgrade this week end. Hard time with a small partition on hard drive (4Gb) and troubles with the USB key (my CDROM is ooo) with 9.10 to boot (dynamic casper partition /cow on wrong hard drive ID)
My Medion 2.4Ghz with P4 laptop is now running karmic. Hibernate run succesfully after 2 reboots (???)
It seems that compiz is more stable with the radeon 9000 now.
The fresh install doesn't accept my exotic Wifi PCMCIA card more the before. But even ndiswrapper manual install failed on this.

It's not faster than before but more stable when swithing fast from desktop to another. So, it's not a bad update for old hardware (6 years old)