Linux uses less power than Windows?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Peter Hiscocks wrote:

>
> This would be *really* easy to verify. Plug the CPU box into clip-on ammeter
> such as available from Active Electronics (or any appliance repair person)
> and look at the current when running Windows and Linux. If you have a
> dual-boot system that would be perfect, because it is then identially the
> same hardware. You'd have to take readings over a period of time and then
> average the current draw.
>
> Mind you, most of the people on this list wouldn't let their Windows
> machine get infected, so that point could not be verified.
>
> If there is strong interest from the list on this, I have the necessary
> equipment to try it.
>
> However, as far as I'm aware, my Windows partition is not infected (and I'm
> not willing to infect it in the interest of scientific enquiry, either ;).
> One of the advantages of sticking with W95, and refusing to buy any more
> Windows crud.

You can check this easily, W95 does not do halt cycles when idle, linux 
does. I do not know about XP. On a laptop it is easiest to check. Run XP 
and the cpu fan is running all the time. Run linux and it's on some of the 
time.

Peter
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