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[News] Linux and Open Source Software Combat Emissions

  • Subject: [News] Linux and Open Source Software Combat Emissions
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:53:32 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Measuring Green

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| Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to 
| track carbon emissions. The software will be hosted at OpenEco.org, a sort of 
| social-networking site for businesses designed to foster communication about 
| measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Intel also believes in the power of collaboration to power the green 
| movement: The company announced its own open-source environmental project at 
| the Intel Developer Forum last week. Lesswatts.org will host a group of 
| software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use 
| server hardware more efficiently and save energy.    
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/09/25/sun-green-software-tech-sciences-cx_ag_0925techsun.html

IBM Unveils Top Technology Innovations That Will Shape the Future of Healthcare
and Life Sciences Over the Next Decade

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| This performance capability, equivalent to approximately 310 high-end Linux 
| servers, has opened the door to perform sophisticated text analytics on very 
| large volumes of data consisting of millions of documents.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070924/0306118.html

Blue Gene, probably running GNU/Linux, as usual.


Related:

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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