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 Never let it be said that The Green Lounge ignores the good deeds of its competitors. When it comes to green computing, we’re all for ideas and initiatives that advance the cause, and it looks like Intel’s come up with a good one. Friday last week, they announced the launch of LessWatts.org, a website designed to encourage innovations that could drive down the energy requirements of Linux servers, PCs and household devices.
Intel unveiled the project at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco hoping that the initiative will bring together a community of Linux developers, open source vendors and end users to facilitate technology development, deployment and tuning and sharing of information around Linux power management. Great idea.
As they say themselves,
“LessWatts.org is not about marketing, trying to sell you something or comparing one vendor to another. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux on your computer or computers.
LessWatts is about creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks.
You can get tips, software, and tuning from this site and its forums, but we also want your input and involvement! Share your best tricks, test the software under development, contribute code, report bugs or issues, or simply help out other people who have questions.”
The LessWatts.org site (I don’t want to get too pedantic, but last time I looked FewerWatts.org was not only still available, but also grammatically correct) offers tips and tricks, documentation, downloads and ways for experts to get directly involved with creating new ways to save power.
Here’s a power saving tip I’ll try to get them to put up on their site: run Linux on a VIA processor platform.
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