[SC.LUG] Eco Computing

[Matthew Tolley]

Interesting, thanks Richard.

Slightly curious as to how you know I have an Android phone - you've 
been hacking it already? Yikes!




Matthew








On 03/08/10 10:49, Richard Smedley wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
>
> On 03/08/10 10:09, Matthew Tolley wrote:
>    
>> I am reliably informed that Linux uses less power than other operating
>> systems.
>>      
> Reliably informed? On some Intel platforms GNU/Linux will
> perform worse as ACPI in the kernel doesn't match the
> Windows kernel which is native to the platform.
>
> However, and it's a big however, GNU/Linux runs on
> much better platforms from an environmental point of
> view. The Android phone in your pocket is a fully-featured
> computer running on tiny amounts of power on ARM chips
> (UK technology!).
>
> The juice to run PCs is only part of the story. Manufacture
> uses energy and water, and involves strip-mining rare
> metals and creating pollution in plastics manufacture;
> disposal involves heavy-metal pollution.
>
> GNU/Linux can keep 10 yr and older PCs running in classrooms
> and training suites with LTSP. My youngest child has an
> 11 year old IBM laptop running the latest Ubuntu software.
> I think it unlikely that it could run Windows 7.
>
>    
>> Are there some good quality third party websites which you can refer me
>> to which have benchmarked or measured this?
>>      
> You might want to look at data centre figures for
> virtualisation, where 8nix makes far better use
> of resources.
>
> Regards,
>
>   - Richard
>
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>
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