Green ICT Web Tutorials
June 4, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Environment, Technology, Green ICT , trackbackWhat is green ICT? Why do we need greener data centres? What is the smart grid?
Internet Evolution’s Green IT web tutorials present the answers as short online videos. Watch them here. You can even email the video tutor your own green ICT questions and he will respond on-line.
Thanks to Giles Liddell for sending the link
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When planning a green computing initiative the choice of operating system can be an important choice.
A new comparisson shows that a Linux operating system can save up 12% of your power consumption as compared to Microsoft's latest server operating system.
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2008/060908-green-windows-linux.html
Nice points Sam.
Vista - the latest desktop operating system from Redmond's finest - requires 0.5G of memory just to sit there and do nothing. Talk about bloat!
Don't forget too that there are special lightweight Linux distributions out there specifically designed to run on older kit. So if by chance you happen to have an old PII lying around gathering dust, it can be given a new lease of life.
Getting a longer service life out of equipment is also important since it means natural resources stay in the ground instead of being depleted: we only have one small planet at our disposal and are so far doing a rather good job at messing it up.