power savings: a goal of the fedora project

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to suggest that saving power be a goal of the fedora project in
> its development of the fedora linux distribution. If there are settings
> we can set which will not deeply and adversely impact users but will
> conserve energy then should set them.
>
> I'd like to hear from others on this subject.

Well as long as the settings are clearly marked as such. What
adversely affects one set of users does not mean another one. [Cluster
people doing Gene analysis on a Fedora cluster have different
IO/CPU/Memory needs than a mail server which is different from a
desktop/laptop user.]



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