On Oct 5, 2024, at 10:20, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-10-04 at 08:20 -0300, George N. White III wrote: >> There have been many changes to linux in an effort to minimize power >> consumption. This is needed to get volume orders for cubicle farms >> where power and cooling are a major concern. > > I have to wonder how well Fedora would really do in businesses. A six > month churn, or even yearly churn if you skip alternate releases, would > be a major pain. You only have to look at how long businesses hang > onto ancient Windows releases as an example. And then there's the > opposite, of the long-term releases that use seriously out-of-date > software (even to begin with). Though I think the biggest issue to > business take-up will be "it's not Windows," while is probably *the* > reason that home users deliberate pick Linux. I heard a vicious rumor that Red Hat uses Fedora Linux as their managed Linux desktop for employee laptops. I bet the person in charge of managing that probably has a few screws loose. ;) For what it’s worth, Lenovo’s certification for Fedora on their supported thinkpads has a requirement for certain power saving features, so it is a real thing. -- Jonathan Billings -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
