Many recent notebooks with a discrete nVidia card in it and an i3/i5/i7 processor use the nVidia Optimus technology to improve battery life. Unfortunately, this software solution is only available in Windows 7 and later. While work is going on in the kernel and drivers to support these notebooks, Bumblebee is a temporary solution allowing you to disable the discrete card if unused and run programs on it if requested.
There is a lot confusion of what the difference between MrMEEE/bumblebee (a.k.a. ppa:mj-
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Bumblebee aims to provide support for nVidia Optimus Laptops on Linux distributions.
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trunk series is the current focus of development.
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bumblebee source package in Xenial
Version 3.2.1-10ubuntu1 uploaded -
bumblebee source package in Trusty
Version 3.2.1-5 uploaded -
bumblebee source package in Oracular
Version 3.2.1-29ubuntu3 uploaded -
bumblebee source package in Noble
Version 3.2.1-29ubuntu3 uploaded -
bumblebee source package in Mantic
Version 3.2.1-29ubuntu1 uploaded