Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Chorlton's Big Green Festival

[Dave Page]

On Friday 15 January 2010 16:32:30 Luke Taylor wrote:

> Surely Gnu/Linux being 
> slightly more power efficient than windows doesn't count?

There's the argument that embedded Linux is significantly more efficient than 
other embedded operating systems on small hardware.

There's also an argument that GNU/Linux runs better on older hardware, 
prolonging its life - I know that I have old Pentium etc. systems which are 
still perfectly usable with GNU/Linux.

There's a counter-argument that new hardware is more power-efficient so is 
environmentally better; but there's a counter-counter-argument that that 
increased efficiency is offset by the energy cost of building the new 
hardware. I've not really seen any good full-lifecycle comparisons, and would 
be very interested.

Dave
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