[SATLUG] Sustainable IT

[Tom Weeks]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 18:53:49 Brian Lewis wrote:
> I'd like to see the numbers you used to make a claim that Linux and XP
> are "greener" than vista.
>
> Don't get me wrong I'm 100% MS free, but a claim like this is quote
> inane without providing facts and numbers.

I don't know about vista.. but in some of my OS/thermal tests... Linux has 
always run cooler than windows in general (separate from frequency scaling 
features in such).  I'm not sure if it's the difference between the linux and 
windows kernel or schedulers, but the CPU is definitely more lightly loaded 
at idle (continuously) in Linux than it is in Windows.

Tweeks