IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows'

Aug 07, 2008, 19:00 (4 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Antone Gonsalves)

"Linux needed to become even more efficient in its use of resources to bolster efforts to reduce energy consumption in the data center. Even though server virtualization, load balancing, better resource management and other technologies make the OS efficient today, "there's got to be more."

""I've got this lingering feeling that open source has not done enough," Sutor said, noting that the community hasn't thought hard enough about how to make Linux even more efficient. "We're doing the obvious things," he said. "

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