Friday, July 05, 2024

Re: OpenBSD runs hotter than Linux with same laptop, draws more electricity?

I'm thinking probably Intel themselves invested money into their own engineers to power optimize their hardware for Linux (arguably too little too late considering the inefficiencies of CISC-to-RISC in hardware and the growth of ARM as a result). Surely they would do it for servers (big electricity costs for buyers), there may be some overrun into other form factors.

I guess there will always be these kinds of momentum-investment issues (need users for investment, need investment for users), for smaller players, generally speaking.

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