Re: [Announce] LessWatts.org power saving project

["Scott Preece" <sepreece@gmail.com>]

On 9/20/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Intel's Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the
> LessWatts.org project, an open source project for saving power on Linux.
>
> http://www.lesswatts.org
>
>
> What is LessWatts.org about?
> ----------------------------
>
> LessWatts.org is a place to bring users, developers and distribution
> makers together around power reduction for linux machines, from mobile
> to desktop to server to datacenter. LessWatts.org is about a
> system-level approach to power savings, from the lowest level device
> drivers in the kernel to the most advanced desktop applications.
> LessWatts.org is about things you can do to reduce power usage.
> LessWatts.org is about longer battery life, a lower airconditioning
> bill, about reducing the impact of computers on the environment.
>
> LessWatts.org brings together a set of tips & tricks, tools,
> technology development projects as well as documentation around power
> saving.
>
>
> Projects
> --------
>
> At this time of launching the LessWatts.org project, the technology
> development projects are those that Intel has started, is involved in
> or has just started working on, such as PowerTOP, Tickless Idle,
> Graphics and various link power management techniques. We'd like to
> invite all developers and projects that focus on power saving to join
> the LessWatts.org effort and community.
>
>
> Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan@linux.intel.com>
>
> http://www.lesswatts.org

*sigh*

Noble cause - dreadful name. And it's ungrammatical, too - should have
been "FewerWatts" or "LessWattage". Or LessPower. Or it could have
shared the Linux Foundations "GreenLinux" name.

scott
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scott preece