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Green Computing is More Than Sleep Mode
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| The simplest thing you can do is to make sure
| that your desktop or laptop goes into sleep
| or standby mode when it's not in use. First
| up, make sure that you're not using a
| screensaver, or there will be little or no
| energy consumption difference between idle
| and in use. Next, KDE and Gnome both have
| menu items where you can set power
| preferences; or you can of course set things
| manually with various XF86 options, hdparm,
| and so on.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6871/1/
Recent:
World's greenest PC?
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| CompuLabs is a month from shipping what may be the smallest, most
| energy-efficient PC ever. The Fit-PC2 is based on an Atom processor up to
| 1.6GHz, and can be ordered with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed on a 160GB SATA
| drive or SSD.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9153577198.html?kc=rss
Linux: Save The Earth, Save A Buck?
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| A good example is what's known as the "tickless kernel." This is a capability
| built into recent Linux kernels that powers up the processor -- a major
| power-consumption source in any computer system -- only when it needs to
| work. As others have noted, it's a power-saving feature that works in devices
| ranging from netbooks to data-center servers; over time, it can deliver
| serious savings for companies with even a modest IT footprint.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/linux_save_the.html
Related:
Open Source Software, OLPC, and the Importance of Being Green
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| I'm referring to the need for the OLPC XO laptop to be extremely efficient in
| its power consumption. The OLPC laptop is designed to be used in places where
| there is no reliable power grid, or, in many cases, no power grid at all.
| This has challenged the OLPC Project is be very creative in how power is
| generated, stored and conserved.
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http://jmbuser.livejournal.com/6764.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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