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ddogreen – smart power management

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

ddogreen is a simple service that automatically saves energy by switching your Linux laptop between high-performance and power-saving modes.

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auto-cpufreq – automatic CPU speed and power optimizer

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU and power optimizer actively monitoring laptop battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature, and system load.

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cpupower – Linux kernel tool

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cpupower is a kernel tool which examines and tunes power saving related of your processor. It shows and set processor power related values.

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cpupower-gui – tool to set CPU frequency limits

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

cpupower-gui is a GUI utility to set CPU frequency limits. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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thermald – thermal daemon for Intel Architecture

October 28, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

thermald is a daemon used to prevent the overheating of platforms. It monitors temperature and applies compensation using cooling methods.

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power-profiles-daemon – makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus

October 26, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

power-profiles-daemon offers to modify system behaviour based upon user-selected power profiles.

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CPUFreq – system monitor and power manager

October 24, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

CPUFreq is a lightweight CPU scaling monitor and a powerful CPU management tool using standard cpufreq kernel modules

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TuneD – daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux.

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Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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