Green PCs: CPU Frequency Scaling in Linux Apr 21, 2008, 12 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4298 reads) (Other stories by Dariusz Duma)
"Somehow, I’ve always had bad luck to new technologies. The world introduces more and more sophisticated methods of using the human knowledge each day, and I was always in the long tail of progress. Or simply, something didn’t want to work for me on Linux. It was similar when I tried to scale the CPU frequency. I didn’t pay much attention to this before, because the laptops I used, simply didn’t provide such a feature. Yes, I realize it was my bad luck to buy laptops like that--different Durons and Athlons, which didn't allow economical scaling, visited my poor desktop computer. So I classified this topic as: 'I don't know, nor am I interested, I'm overworked.' And then, recently, I purchased a new laptop and installed Ubuntu on it, where such things as CPU scaling work out of the box. I would have got over this like 'Well, because it’s a laptop, and they're made to do this by default,' if not the fact, that the electricity price is rising, or that I feel responsible for the ozone depletion--well… I've developed a guilty conscience. Does my tiny desktop PC have to heat like a crazy one...?"
