News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Auto-CPUFreq, the CPU speed & power optimizer and power saving tool for Linux, released new 3.0.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source application added graphical and command line options to override the CPU turbo boost, and config file option to specify battery device manually.
Auto-CPUFreq, automatic CPU speed & power optimizer, released version 2.6.0 with some new features and many bug-fixes.
For those who don’t know about auto-cpufreq, it is a free open-source Linux app, which can monitor and automatically manage CPU speed according to battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load.
power-profiles-daemon, the power mode settings backend in Gnome, released 0.20 today!
The new release added amdgpu panel power savings which uses dedicated hardware in systems with integrated Radeon graphics to decrease panel power consumption when the system is on battery.
This activates the DRM connector attribute panel_power_savings which takes a range from 0 to 4 to indicate how aggressively to enable panel power savings.
GNOME Power Mode settings page
