Looking for Algae--the Next Voyage
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| The Linux Foundation has developed a new initiative to work on power
| management. This is good news. Linux can become (along with the choice for
| supercomputing, embedded systems and server farms) the "green operating
| system". We should help both the Linux Foundation and Linux move along this
| path, if not just to save ourselves money in electricity
| and cooling, if not to help those "off the grid", then to help save the
| algae.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000309
Related:
Confessions! Jon 'maddog' Hall tells all!
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| By switching to a Linux-based thin client, argued Hall, energy can be saved
| by running applications on machines that use only a fraction of power
| required by full desktops.
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=43319
developerWorks Interviews: Jon "Maddog" Hall
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| Renowned open source advocate waxes philosophical about Linux,
| open source, education, consumerism, and more
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int103106.html?S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-dig60dWmadogpd
http://tinyurl.com/y3gk26
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| Q: You say that "you can bet your business on Free Software"; how do you
| back up that statement?
|
| A: How can you bet your business on proprietary software? If a company is
| bought, goes bankrupt or merges or decides to delete a product line you have
| no choice but to go with whatever product or path they desire. How can you
| plan when the company keeps changing its licensing terms, and you have no
| real alternatives? What do you do when the company that makes your software
| puts its own profits and its values ahead of yours, the customer? When the
| software company holds back on releasing the latest bug fix so it fits its
| "release schedule?" When you can't get that one little feature added that
| would allow you to streamline your business, save a lot of money and beat
| your competition to market?
|
| What happens if that company (no matter where it is) is embargoed?
|
| Jon "Maddog" Hall,
| President, Linux International,
| ComputerWorld interview
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;527801083;fp;2;fpid;4
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
Use GNU/Linux and help save the planet
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| Are Windows users, not by choice, the worst polluters of the planet
| relative to GNU/Linux? Well, not intentionally but the lifecycle of
| a machine running Windows must be shorter than that of a
| conscientious Linux user who can prevent that old 400MHZ Celeron PC
| with 128MBs of memory gathering dust in the corner from heading for
| the scrapheap.
|
| [...]
|
| The Chinese have a saying: the journey of a thousand miles begins
| with the first step. Reusing a puffing and wheezing old computer
| by installing a minimal GNU/Linux distro and staving off the day
| when it trudges forlornly to the scrapheap is at least a baby step
| in the right direction.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/use_gnu_linux_and_help_save_the_planet
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