Linux uses less power than Windows?

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:49:55 -0500, Stewart C. Russell
<scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The following story turned up on TalkEnergy:
> <http://www.talkenergy.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/13/1229220&mode=thread&tid=33>
> 
> "Cameron Spitzer writes "I've observed that a PC running Linux uses
> significantly less energy than one running Microsoft Windows. 
Observed ?!  Where is the data observed , w/o it does not seem very
Electrical Engineer of him <http://greens.org/~cls/>


> -- So, could there be even a grain of truth in this? I'm thinking no, or
> at very best, "it depends".
You cannot go wrong with "it depends" ;-)


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Lloyd D Budd
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