Linux: Keyboard Blink Driver
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| Stephen Hemminger posted a patch to make it possible to unload the keyboard
| blink driver, "the blink driver wakes up every jiffy which wastes power
| unnecessarily. Using a notifier gives same effect. Also add ability to unload
| module."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/11731
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Linux: Reducing Power Consumption
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| Arjan summarizes, "with kernel fixes and features, the power
| consumption of this laptop went from 21.06 Watts to 18.25 Watts;
| with 2 additional userspace fixes the power consumption ended up
| at 15.5 Watts."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/11700
Novell, AMD sync up on SUSE Linux power management
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| PowerNow! is a dashboard-based application that conserves power in
| AMD-based computers. The CPU's clock speed and VCore is automatically
| decreased when the computer is under low load or idle to save power
| and reduce heat.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1262301,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/39l3kz
Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux
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| What's eating the battery life of my laptop? Why isn't it many more
| hours? Which software component causes the most power to be burned?
| These are important questions without a good answer... until now.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/11/365
Linux going green
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| The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, held last week at the
| Google Mountain View, Calif. campus, featured a "Green Linux"
| initiative to boost power management in the platform.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/012549.html#6690252001063892125
Report: Linux, open source greener than Windows
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| A new report from the U.K. Office of Government Commerce about Open
| Source Software Trials in Government, has found that servers running
| Linux could combat the rising problem of e-waste because they last
| up to twice as long as machines running Windows.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1246762,00.html?track=sy184
http://tinyurl.com/38cge3
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