Energy use (was installing freebsd on windows)

[Chris Whitehouse]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of 
>> months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. 
>> On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have 
>> done an excellent job
> 
> of course. windows vista runs well too on overmuscled hardware.
> 
> Just i don't understand the idea of wasting the power of good hardware 
> just to waste.

Ok this is getting a bit OT but I would like to say it as I think it is 
something that we should be having a lot of discussion about. There is a 
further reason for using PCBSD which is energy consumption. My computer 
used to run for hours even days upgrading the base system and my desktop 
ports. Now it's all done once (well more than once for testing but you 
get the point I hope). And fairly new hardware can be more energy 
efficient than quite old hardware.

There is of course freebsd-update which sounds great though I haven't 
used it, and pkg_add, but I  generally found upgrading ports (with 
portmanager - my plug) gave better results.


Chris


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