Linux Works on Green Credentials

By Greg McNevin

June 21, 2007: The Linux Foundation is aiming to push the open source operating system’s green credentials harder, resolving to develop new ways in which to improve the systems power management capabilities.

The Green Linux initiative was born during last week’s Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at Google’s Silicon Valley campus, an event attended by 230 open source developers and representatives from companies such as IBM, Sun, AMD, Red Hat, Dell and Novell.

Cutting the power consumption of mobile devices is a concern for the imitative, as is reducing the energy gobbled by desktop machines and servers.

“The Linux Foundation will work with its workgroups, identify key projects and co-ordinate resources among its members to improve this functionality in the Linux platform,” said the organisation in a statement. “Power management developers will meet next week in Ottawa to continue work in this area."

The summit also looked at ways to establish new accessibility standards as well as improve hardware driver support, an issue that is still somewhat of a thorn in the side of more mainstream adoption of the operating system.

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