Feral Releases "GameMode" System Tool For Linux, Currently Sets CPU Scaling Governor

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Feral Releases "GameMode" System Tool For Linux, Currently Sets CPU Scaling Governor

Ahead of this month's Rise of the Tomb Raider Linux release, Feral Interactive has released a new system tool for Linux called GameMode...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Feral-GameMode-Linux

[makam]

When will it support OpenRC?

[johanb]

When will it support OpenRC?

I guess as systemd has apparently become the standard on all major distros nowadays the question should instead be: Will it ever support OpenRC?

[makam]

I guess as systemd has apparently become the standard on all major distros nowadays the question should instead be: Will it ever support OpenRC?

Don't underestimate the Gentoo/BSD communities. It IS tough, but they already have experience on gutting out systemd only stuff out from systemd.

p.s. if anyone likes Debian like me, I suggest you try Postx, it's a Debian fork with OpenRC

[boxie]

this seems cool - I wonder if it will be able to automatically use some of the wattman like functionality in the newer kernels too

[TheCanadianBacon]

For those that are complaining about openrc support not being in, you know, you could always contribute code for it. Just saying.

[andre30correia]

I guess as systemd has apparently become the standard on all major distros nowadays the question should instead be: Will it ever support OpenRC?

since is open BSD/Gentoo can change this

[makam]

For those that are complaining about openrc support not being in, you know, you could always contribute code for it. Just saying.

I would, but I am a sysad, not a dev.

[Toyoracer]

Solus has it installed in /unstable for testing. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Solus-Project

[SpyroRyder]

Well this is now getting quite interesting, especially if distros start putting it as a dependency to steam so all games can assume that it's there to make use of