From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Sep 12 12: 6:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sauron.bivwood.com (sauron.bivwood.com [208.207.65.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC80037B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bivwood.com (bw6.bivwood.com [208.207.65.6]) by sauron.bivwood.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18800 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:06:53 -0400 Message-ID: <39BE7ECC.DDD74515@bivwood.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:07:15 -0400 From: Alexander Ivantchev Organization: The Bivings Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: The FAQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Just a minor correction. > > Q: How cool is FreeBSD? > > ... > Seriously, both FreeBSD and Linux use the HLT (halt) instruction when > the system is idle thus lowering its energy consumption and therefore > the heat it generates. Also if you have APM (automatic > power management) configured, then FreeBSD can also put the CPU into a > low power mode. > > APM = Advanced Power Management, not Automatic :-] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message