"It is an area we were pretty weak in a few years ago and just building up the infrastructure took a long time, but now we are at a point where we have most of it done," Torvalds said.
"That doesn't mean we are done. Now we have an infrastructure in place... we have the tools to measure power and notice when the power is higher and why that is, which is pretty important. Before, it used to be a black box," he said.
Linux to get greener
Posted on Sunday, February 03 2008 @ 3:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Linus Torvalds says Linux will get greener. The operating system will get better power-management and energy-diagnosis tools: