Linux Is Environmentally Friendly

“Is there anything Linux can’t do? next we will hear that it can cure cancer.

The UK government recently announced that servers running Linux are greener than servers running Windows because, according to the report published by the Department of Government Commerce on Open Source Software Trials in Government (PDF), open source software has lower hardware requirements and needs less frequent hardware upgrades.

It said that: “for equivalent open source and Microsoft Windows systems, the open source system will require less memory and a slower processor speed for the same functionality.” It points out that Windows needs a hardware upgrade every three to four years, while a servers running Linux might need a new platform as infrequently as every eight years, which is half as often.

The report went on to say “Open Source operating systems such as Linux do not usually have the regular major upgrades that are a feature of Windows, and thus do not have the requirement that goes with these upgrades for a new or upgraded computer to run them.””

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Posted on Mar 28, 03:14 pm by treb0r

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