____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 13:17 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> VectorLinux: Save A PC From The Dumpster
>>
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>>| Like Puppy Linux (my other current favorite "small is beautiful"
>>| distribution), Vector is designed to be tiny, swift, and to get the job
>>| done, and it seems to succeed nicely on all three counts. For an
>>| interesting comparison of VectorLinux 5.9 (in beta) and another small
>>| distro, Zenwalk, check out Paul Marwick's head-to-head review of the two.
>> `----
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/vectorlinux_sav.html
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>
> It would be interesting to see an analysis of the carbon footprint of
> eg., using a 10 year old laptop (I'm using a Tecra 8100 in Canada at the
> moment which is running Debian and a 2.6 kernel), versus using something
> like the Asus Eee instead. On a watts/cycle metric, does an Asus Eee
> offer a smaller footprint? Or, should we be looking for ARM-based
> laptops to keep the footprint still smaller?
>
> If we still had science departments in our Universities, this is the
> kind of thing I'd hope that they'd be looking at. Probably they're all
> too busy handing out degrees in hotel management to worry about real
> research now.
The bigger issue is companies that run Universities. This plague has apparently
reached France. Academia becomes a factory (if workforce and 'studies') for
wealthy corporations that sponsor these.
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