[SC.LUG] Eco Computing

[Richard Smedley]

Beware, the Linux Phone Police are watching you ;-P

 - Richard

On 04/08/10 09:04, Matthew Tolley wrote:
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> Interesting, thanks Richard.
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> Slightly curious as to how you know I have an Android phone - you've
> been hacking it already? Yikes!
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> Matthew
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> On 03/08/10 10:49, Richard Smedley wrote:
>> Hello Matthew,
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>> On 03/08/10 10:09, Matthew Tolley wrote:
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>>> I am reliably informed that Linux uses less power than other operating
>>> systems.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> Are there some good quality third party websites which you can refer me
>>> to which have benchmarked or measured this?
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>> You might want to look at data centre figures for
>> virtualisation, where 8nix makes far better use
>> of resources.
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>> Regards,
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>>   - Richard
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>> http://goodGNUs.org/
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