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Dev tools · September 13, 2012

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Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console

My original goal was to see if I could work as a software developer on a linux system console only for energy efficiency. This is a normal ...

Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console launched on September 13, 2012 with 61 votes, #25 of 455 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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KLAIG is a development environment designed for running a full software development workflow on a Linux console without a graphical interface. Created to explore energy efficiency in development work, it documents setup techniques, power consumption measurements, and testing of console-based tools like framebuffer web browsers. The project shares insights on hardware impacts like wireless mice and screen backlighting on system power usage.

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Second sep332 question. Love the idea, how does it fare on the consumption ? Lots of thanks for this article @sep332 @Mateus Carruccio, idle powertop doesn't change after the customizations compared to the non-customized console. Starting a framebuffer web browser pops up 200 wakeups per seconds. Also I was surprised by how much the backlight influence this number : around 5w difference, and my wireless mouse 2-3w. Which fb web browsers did you try? I installed the framebuffer flavor of netsurf last night (I still need rtfm) and at first look it seems to have more features than links 2. http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ Thanks for the article... inspiringfrom klaig.blogspot.be

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