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Can I play Devil's advocate. Since vast chunks of the computation to most of these project is provided by spare supercomputer cycles, wouldn't it save the planet a lot of grief if we focused on ensuring that CPU scaling and other power management features worked on Linux properly on people's desktop systems, so they consume minimal power when not actively in use? Rather than running at full pelt. I have a horrid feeling that MS Windows might be a tad greener in it's power support, although that may be more down to Intel and hardware vendors than MS. On the other hand, if it is cold enough where you live, turning electricity into heat via computing isn't perhaps as wasteful as some might think. Although gas is cheaper per BTU than electricity. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html