Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 17:12 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Green, power reduction, and climate change are all the rage these days, and the world of computers is not off the hook on this one. Software and hardware manufacturers are trying hard to keep power consumption down - while first something for mostly mobile computers, desktops and servers are now part of the effort too. PC World tested Windows Server 2008 and two Linux server offerings and compared their power usage patterns.
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2007-09-06
It may be interesting to compare your Ubuntu too XP on the same machine. I'm a Mandriva user myself, I only mention it because XP seems to be closer too par based on hardware needs and sp3 should have all the latest power saving goodness in it.
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As for the mention of tinkering in the article, that's about where I am. I just turned powersaving off through KDE after consistantly coming home to a hung machine since turning it on. Dumping down the needed powersaving tweaking for the average users would insure that us above average users have no issues getting adjustments right.
(My specific grief may be bad ram instead and if it is; blast you Bullistics, I'm going back to OCZ