27 May 2008 - 5:27Linux buys a big green lollipop

Always searching for the biggest, best-tasting lollipop, Red Hat Linux just decided to add a dash of earthy flavor. Linux vendors like Novell are focusing in on energy efficiency and power consumption, and hoping to catch some of the sugar sweet publicity that comes with anything green. Meanwhile Windows Vista is still angry and bloated.

Lately Linux developers have been focused on all sorts of mobile applications, but this news has a variety of applications.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 has green improvements that should reduce power consumption. It supports CPU frequency scaling in virtualised environments, and includes support for Intel’s Dynamic Acceleration Technology, which can idle or, as Red Hat describes it, “quiesce” CPU cores. The system can also overclock busy cores to get more work out of them within safe thermal levels, Red Hat said. That’s according to ZDNet.

Good news for people who want to use their laptops 80-90% of each workday.

And although Windows Vista typically has a voracious appetite, it’s market share is equally as immense. RedHat Linux has endured some struggles in trying to catch up, and Windows Vista doesn’t show any signs of giving up anytime soon.

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