Not so green computing: Is Windows an energy hog?
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| The bank uses Linux, AIX and Solaris, which he says are more efficient. "If
| we can put something on Unix we prefer to do that," he says.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6283
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Windows, Linux vie for honours
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| Projects include the "tickles kernel" which enables the processor to sleep
| between tasks and better power management to USB peripherals.
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| That lightness had also allowed Linux to become a strong player in the
| embedded market, where energy efficiency was critical to success, Mr King
| said.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22393733-5013045,00.html
Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
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| Linux appears to have an advantage at the moment: Companies are becoming
| increasingly open to adopting the platform both in the server room and on the
| desktop. Big-name vendors like IBM, HP, and Novell are giving the penguin a
| push in the datacenter, framing it as a flexible and energy-efficient
| platform. The fact that Linux offers greater virtualization opportunities
| than Windows (a sentiment recently expressed by the VMWare CTO Mendel
| Rosenblum) only strengthens the platform's green standing.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/08/linux_and_windo.html?source=rss
GNU/Linux is the most power-efficient OS on Intel hardware
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| According to a keynote given at OSCON, Intel's PowerTOP application has
| allowed developers to get a close-up view of what is sucking power in a
| GNU/Linux system. Apparently they've gotten so much feedback and patches that
| they've been able to extend battery life by an hour since the first release,
| making GNU/Linux the best OS for power saving.
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/GNU_Linux_is_the_most_power_efficient_OS_on_Intel_hardware
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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