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Sucking power
Sucking power
Posted Sep 16, 2007 3:36 UTC (Sun) by sobdk (subscriber, #38278)In reply to: Sucking power by mrons
Parent article: LinuxConf.eu wrapup
What makes you think Windows doesn't have a similar problem? With all of the crap you have to install on Windows like virus scanners, anti-spyware tools, internet security suites I'm sure the situation is much much worse. You did get me curious enough to do a little test today on my wife's machine that has both Windows Vista (pretty much a bare install with virus software) and Kubuntu.
The awesome power of Windows Vista!
The gist is that on the same machine Windows would idle at about 79 Watts but Kubuntu 7.04 with a kernel.org 2.6.22.6 used 69 Watts. The real kicker for me was that even though I thought we had been putting the machine to sleep in Windows all of this time it actually does nothing!
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Vista ?
Posted Sep 16, 2007 9:46 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Why the hell you are comparing Linux with Vista ? Vista is a hog in all senses. XP or W2K are good, though (W2K or Core, but not on Pentium 4).
Vista ?
Posted Sep 16, 2007 15:05 UTC (Sun) by sobdk (subscriber, #38278) [Link]
>Why the hell you are comparing Linux with Vista?
Well, it was the only Windows machine I have (Thank God!).
Honestly though do you think my comparison was unfair? I compared the latest and greatest from both the Linux world and the Windows world. Most consumers whether they like it or not will will get a new PC that has Windows Vista preinstalled. I would personally love to hear someone from Microsoft say "No wait that's not fair! Please do a comparison with our older far superior W2K and XP!"
Additionally I can tell you that at WinHEC in 2006 I sat through several fine developer (marketing?) sessions explaining how all of the suspend and resume problems of XP were going to be solved in Vista. In XP drivers (and perhaps app software) can simply veto a request for suspend. "Less asking and more Telling" was the moto for Vista as they explained that all drivers would have to get their act together and support suspend properly. Well someone didn't get the memo on my machine.