My power problem didn't require a new battery; a software change made everything more efficient.

I'm a Windows guy and thus know that Windows can corrupt if power to a PC is cut unexpectedly.<BR><BR>How robust is Linux in this regard?<BR><BR>What if Linux was setup to use mirrored hard drives? (I ...

Independent tests show that Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at ...

For this test, we examined power consumption as a way to judge whether Windows Server 2008 or Linux is, in fact, the “greener” operating system. As the price of power hits record heights, ...

Revive an old laptop with Linux.

We ran multiple power consumption tests using Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 and Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 on four, popular 1U server machines, one ...