Comments on: WattOS – A Fast Energy-Saving Linux Based on Ubuntu – Review & Screenshots

By: Hecatior

Hecatior — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:25:46 +0000

Watt OS is really fast and its all needed. When one must have internet rather easy, its there and it works. This light distros is not the best because there are many features missing, compared to macpup, madbox, and so many others. Though WattOS is addictive and user friendly. The only bad thing is the desktop and themes. They suck.

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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:04 +0000

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By: Matthew Chappell

Matthew Chappell — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:42:13 +0000

As Iggykoopa said WattOSPM requires the OS to be installed to register with the system first. It is a very useful GUI and you shouldn’t really judge the OS until you have spent a few days tweaking laptop-mode-tools with it. Then use a powerwatt in-line plug monitor and compare your systems draw with Ubuntu! I have used WattOS Beta 3 and Crunchbang Linux 9.04.01 on a few of my systems and they really do fill the gap on what a lightweight Ubuntu based OS should be, unlike the official sponsored bloated Xubuntu.

By: iggykoopa

iggykoopa — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:20:10 +0000

The power management features aren’t turned on until an actual install. Wattospm (the power management gui) autodetects your hardware and the backend runs as a daemon, once you install just add your user to the power managers group and restart. There will be a small lightning bolt icon in the tray area that will alow you to configure the power saving options. I’m working on power usage statics right now, it will probably just display power consumption over time and wether you were in power saving or performance mode. If you would like to see power usage now I’ve written a conky script to display realtime power usage here http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/323/conky-power-usage-script/ Thanks for the good review.(BTW I’m the developer for wattospm)

By: stlouisubntu

stlouisubntu — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:20:23 +0000

Why not try Xubuntu? Frankly, because is really doesn’t seem all that lightweight as lightweight desktops go. It seems to me that one might as well use Gnome rather than Xubuntu.

As far as LXDE/Openbox buntu distros, my preference is u-lite
http://u-lite.org (formerly Ubuntulite — until Canonical forced a name change.)

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:34:32 +0000

JWJones, Thanks for the correction, that certainly is LXDE, I had it written in my notes but typed in Gnome by mistake…

As for email clients go, I think that’s a decision that requires a lot of thought. For many, the internet browser and email client are the most-used apps. Evolution is a standard. Claws is not. But that’s just my 2 cents.

By: JWJones

JWJones — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:34 +0000

I checked this one out myself, not a bad, lightweight distro, at all.

A couple of things:

That’s not a Gnome desktop, that’s LXDE and Openbox.

Where’s Evolution? Well, Evolution is not exactly lightweight, whereas Claws is. You could always install Evolution from the repositories. I prefer Sylpheed, myself.

I would have liked to see a GUI process app included, to see how much memory is being used. I would say it’s probably using less than Xubuntu, though, as LXDE is even lighter than XFCE.