[opensuse] 11.1 Battery life and something known as a "tickless" kernel

I've noticed that battery life on my brand new Dell XPS M1730 is not quite what I would expect (Less than an hour on a battery rated at 3 hours). I've heard of something called a "tickless" kernel from the land of the Debian and the Ubuntu. Now, I know that Linux is Linux basically, and that Debian and Ubuntu wrap thing is opaque "magic" layers. My question is, is there a way to extend my battery life and what is the tickless kernel? Can we get it in SUse land? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org