Links 09/06/2008: GNU/Linux Sets World Record, Beats Windows Server 2008 at Greenness Test
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-09 18:40:17 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-09 18:40:17 UTC
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Recent Techrights' Posts
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
- Scrolling up and down in social control media
- The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
- The fifth meeting report and sixth meeting report show some of the concerns leading up to the mass strikes
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- When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe)
- Consider the following
- Resistance to SLAPPs in the UK: Coalition Growing
- thankfully awareness of SLAPPs in the UK is improving
- Links 12/04/2026: Mass Rebellion Against Slop, UK Crackdown on Nudification by Slop
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/04/2026: "Objective Truth" and Flutter
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 11, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 11, 2026
- Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You
- From Red Hat's own site
- Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Floppy Disks on Linux and Junix
- Links for the day
- statCounter: Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low This Month in France
- French government agencies are ordered to move to GNU/Linux
- Disgruntled IBMers Explain Why IBM is Circling Down a Death Spiral, Gerstner (Recently Deceased) Destroyed IBM in April 1993, and IBM Now Weaponises PIPs to Attack Its Own
- We've just checked if anyone has covered mass layoffs at IBM Red Hat. Nope.
- Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Critique of Delta Chat and Why Trying to Emulate Centralised, Addictive "Facebook" is Misguided
- Links for the day
- Links 11/04/2026: Scam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI and EFF Quitting Twitter
- Links for the day
- Links 11/04/2026: Twitter Presence Considered Harmful to News Sites, "The Future of Everything is Lies"
- Links for the day
- thenextweb.com (TNW) Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, Fake Articles About France and GNU/Linux Flood the Web
- If you're not against slop, you're part of the problem
- Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
- "A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a location strategy under which it has identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment."
- The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
- What was now known as The Register UK not only works against the interests of the UK; it works for charlatans and frauds
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 10, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, April 10, 2026
- Three Years Ago We Disconnected From the United States, Now France Does the Same
- Maybe in the coming months France will recruit loads of UNIX/Linux specialists
- While Thousands of EPO Workers Are on Strike the President of the EPO, Who Bribes His Voters, Gives Himself Millions of Euros and 5,000 Euros Per Month in Housing Allowance
- Campinos is immune, inherently corrupt, and habitual briber of his 'voters'
- IBM and Red Hat Whistleblowers Versus a Dying Fourth Estate (Journalism Seems to Have Died as Silently as IBM RAs Go)
- What a crazy world we live in!
- Slopfarms We Forget About Because They Silently Die
- The hard reality (for slobs and sloppers) is, slopfarms have no future
- Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Flexiveganism, What Happened to Twitter, and Algorithm Fetishes
- Links for the day
- Links 10/04/2026: Indonesia's Social Control Media Bans Extend to Google YouTube, "I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower"
- Links for the day
- Media Blackout Regarding Mass Layoffs at Red Hat
- To be very clear, what happened is certainly real
- IBM 'Value' Fell 20%, The Executives Took Bonuses and Bonus Hikes
- IBM is paying more and more money to the executives
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
- It's difficult to argue with people over things that they do not even understand
- This Coming Weekend and Next Week We'll Cover EPO Scandals a Lot, There Are Still Perpetual Strikes That the Media Intentionally Avoids Covering
- Expect our focus on EPO corruption to grow again
- More Information on IBM Red Hat Layoffs in April 2026, Hundreds of Skilled GNU/Linux Engineers Laid Off (300+ Simultaneously)
- How long can the corporate media ignore IBM layoffs for?
- Raw: Extensive Evidence of Red Hat's Mass Layoffs in China (IBM Meets Geopolitics)
- This has nothing to do with workers' performance
- We'll Never Ever Do Social Control Media, Nate Silver's Article Helps Explain Why
- If you want to research and publish, stay away from it
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
- No wonder his own colleagues thought poorly of him (the junior barrister)
- Links 10/04/2026: Pseudoscience and "Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles" and More Attacks on American Journalism
- Links for the day
- Dr. Andy Farnell Blasts Misuse of the Term "AI" to Describe Plagiarism, Plunder, and Misinformation
- Dr. Stallman wrote about it back in the early 1980s
- A Sign of Progress?
- We'll solve war hunger and colonise Mars soon, according to men who never graduated from College
- The Slop Delusion: This Morning We Broke Story on Red Hat Layoffs in Two Posts, Google is Already Plagiarising Them With Slop and Getting the Basic Facts Wrong
- Google does not have "AI"; it has slop, which means it scrapes other people's work, then imitates it poorly
- "IBM is Constantly Laying Off People" (Not Just in Red Hat)
- IBM as a company is collapsing
- Many Layoffs at IBM Red Hat, as the Rumours Said
- Red Hat mass layoffs [...] "this was a difficult decision to make."
- Microsoft, Drowning in Net Debt, Will Make Many More Cuts
- The company is a net negative to society
- April 15: Richard Stallman to Speak at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas
- Next Wednesday in the afternoon Dr. Stallman will speak in a US college for the second time this year and for the second time in nearly 8 years
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 09, 2026
- Gemini Links 10/04/2026: Cycling, Slop, and Software to Keep Photos Organised
- Links for the day
Comments
Jose_X
2008-06-09 21:12:46
Even if that was a good call, the article clearly states that the Red Hat tested did not include any of the tickless kernel improvements, which were improvements made specifically to address power consumption and gave great results, making the OLPC XO possible, for example.
Thus we would expect even better results in the near future.
Also, for some needs, Monopolyware, green or black and blue, just won't cut it. http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/osfam . Likely, it won't scale without requiring a dedicated nuke reactor for power (assuming the chips don't fry) and Fort Knox for financing. So if you need real power, there is no such a thing as a GREEN Monopolyware option, for there is no such a thing as a Monopolyware option, period.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-10 03:07:24
Virtualisation taken into account, over 91% of the world's biggest computers run Linux.
The British government did a study a year ago. It concluded that Linux is twice as green as Windows. They used different criteria.