Ubuntu guru on power management hacks
It was while watching fellow Linux users having to shutdown their laptops in between talks at open source conferences some years ago that Matthew Garrett, now head of the Ubuntu laptop team, was initially alerted to power management issues in Linux systems.
After almost 15 years of hacking, Garrett will attend next week's linux.conf.au, to give a presentation on power management in an effort to fix suspend "for fun and profit".
Aside from working on improving hardware driver issues, Cambridge, U.K.-based Garrett has also worked extensively in Linux development, and was, until his resignation last August, one of the Debian project's most active developers.
Garrett speaks with Liz Tay about working in the open source community, Debian, Ubuntu, and linux.conf.au.
What interests you most about power management? For how long have you been working on power management and what are some experiences you've had?
I started looking at power management in 2002, after discovering that my laptop didn't work too well with the traditional APM support in Linux.
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