-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 12:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > > ISTM that regardless of who's software is more efficient, arguably the > best method is thin clients, from an energy perspecitve. This is based > on the assumption that you will have a few 24/7 machines anyway. And > that points, at least in my mind, a little bit towards OSS because of > the inexpensive virtualization options. A few physical machines > running at nearly full capacity seems to me to be more energy > efficient than a bunch of machines running at lower loads. > > But that is all idle speculation around the water cooler.
Second that. There's no hard drive to spin up every 5 minutes, the monitor will of course be configured to power off after N number of minutes of inactivity, and similarly the CPU can be configured to go into deep slowdown mode during inactive times. Thus, after-hours, all the clients will be sipping power. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh2uO0ACgkQS9HxQb37XmexzwCgtWQb02axTbj3Ui7VbxMgymdq RfoAn10OPt8wO/El1acczqlaGeDy490/ =Wkr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
