Linux tool points out power-wasting applications

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With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. Linux tool points out power-wasting applications - LinuxWorld, 07/27/07: Linux systems' power consumption is rapidly becoming a top concern for operators of large data centers. A University of California Berkeley study recently attributed 90% of the increase in data center power consumption to servers priced at less than $25,000 each, the market where Linux is most important. But until recently, kernel developers have focused mostly on correctness and performance, leaving the hardware's power-saving features largely unused. This year, the trend is finally turning around. Read more. More of this week's Linux news Big Blue turning its data centers green - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: IBM will move nearly 4,000 servers onto mainframes running Linux and take advantage of security, virtualization features to cut energy and other costs. The plan is to save $250 million over the next five years. Intel open-source project to boost multi-core apps - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: Intel is hoping to boost the market for its multi-core processors by turning a product that was designed to ease C++ programming into an open source project. Massachusetts adopts Open XML - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wednesday added Open XML to its list of approved open documents formats. The decision was included in Massachusetts's ratification of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) 4.0, which had been out for public review since July 2 and garnered 460 comments from individuals and organizations. IBM goes from Big Blue to Very Green - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: IBM is drinking its own green Kool-Aid, embarking on a huge energy-conservation project to consolidate about 3,900 of its own servers in six locations around the world, reducing power use by about 80 percent and saving US$250 million. Acer installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: Acer did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system on some notebooks, local dealers said. Still waiting for swap prefetch - LinuxWorld, 08/01/07: If a system is idle, but has a lot of application data sitting around in swap, maybe it should page some of it back in. That way, the kernel won't spend too much time paging when the applications need to run again. Linux vendor strengthens smartphone security - LinuxWorld, 07/31/07: Linux software vendor a la Mobile has released a security component that is designed to protect smartphones running the company’s mobile operating system. The new code, called the Mobile Security Engine, uses 128-bit AES encryption and digital certificates to protect the operating system itself from being tampered with, as well as all files on the handset. Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month - LinuxWorld, 07/31/07: Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks. Web-based development platform goes open source - LinuxWorld, 07/31/07: Australian software company Once Technologies has released what it claims is the first browser-based Web 2.0 development platform as an open source project. Tibco unveils open-source AJAX mashup tool - LinuxWorld, 07/30/07: Tibco Software Monday introduced a tool aimed at easing the development of enterprise mashups. Torvalds rebukes desktop critics - LinuxWorld, 07/30/07: Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel's development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements on the desktop. BBC looks to court online viewers with media player - LinuxWorld, 07/27/07: The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet. SourceForge unveils the winners of the 'open-source Oscars' - LinuxWorld, 07/27/07: Popular open-source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the equivalent of the open-source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony. Microsoft trying to get code open-source certification - LinuxWorld, 07/27/07: After months of antagonizing the open-source community, Microsoft now appears to be trying to engage it by seeking an official stamp of approval for the licenses that the company uses to share its own software and source code. Mozilla CEO denies Google decided Thunderbird's fate - LinuxWorld, 07/27/07: Mozilla's CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google. Mozilla ponders separate organization for Thunderbird - LinuxWorld, 07/26/07: The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser. Researchers reveal another Firefox flaw - LinuxWorld, 07/26/07: Mozilla has produced a patch for yet another critical flaw in Firefox, the latest embarrassment in a lengthening list this month for the open-source browser.

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