[clue-tech] dBus and HAL

[June Tate-Gans]

The fewer apps on the runqueue, the less the kernel needs to wake up.
For their features and functionality, I found little to no actual
usefulness in my day to day work or needs. Hal in previous versions
also fell back to polling devices for availability, which is highly
detrimental to the usefulness of a tickless kernel. Further, hal has
repeatedly in the past failed to configure the way I need -- in the
past, I've actually had xorg listen to hal's view of the system rather
than xorg.conf, leading to horrible values for the screen's DPI, and
misconfiguring the mouse.

In my build of xorg on Gentoo, hal and dbus are both disabled (in
fact, both are disabled systemwide), and I find that configuration of
the system is actually easier, and I get better battery life (by about
30 minutes or so).

These are, of course, personal anecdotes -- YMMV. =o)

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:25 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:30 AM, June Tate-Gans wrote:
>>
>> [ snip ]
>>
>>  2. I actually was convinced by a friend to give FreeBSD a try, and
>> after running into that mess decided I liked BSD Ports, which is why I
>> switched over to Gentoo. Yay! No dbus or hal! Woo!
>>
>> -- June Tate-Gans    | Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get
>> stranger things
>> www.theonelab.com | than you free with my breakfast cereal. -- Zaphod
>> Beeblebrox
>
> Tell me more.  What is wrong with dBus and HAL ?
> Gus
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June Tate-Gans    | Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things
www.theonelab.com | than you free with my breakfast cereal. -- Zaphod Beeblebrox