laptop-mode-tools

 Posted on February 15, 2011  (Last modified on January 31, 2013)  |  2 minutes  |  291 words  |  

I just released laptop-mode-tools version 1.56. This release adds many goodies. We now have a better calling application to rely upon, udev. The linux kernel generates many events based on conditions. udev is a framework that acts on those events and can call-in applications based on conditions. This is something I wanted to do for laptop- mode-tools. Power State First was power state. The power_supply subsystem can sense changes and generate events. [Read More]
laptop-mode-tools  udev  pm-utils  acpid 

apt-offline - 1.0

 Posted on November 8, 2010  (Last modified on January 29, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  122 words  |  

Hello World. I am very pleased to announce apt-offline , version 1.0. This release adds a Graphical User Interace to apt-offline. Big thanks to Abhishek Mishra and Manish Sinha who did all the development work to make this GUI happen. Help: I was wondering if there is a logo for APT that I could use in the big blank space on the main window. Apart from the GUI, there are a bunch of bug fixes in this release (which have already been made available for the Squeeze release also). [Read More]
apt-offline  offline package manager  apt-offline GUI