Davide Prina <davide.pr...@gmail.com> writes: > So, I think that if Debian must think about climate change, probably it > must be focused on energy efficiency to gain more results.
I agree that energy efficiency is probably the place where we could most directly contribute as a project while focusing on the things that we're all good at. (I'm not discounting also talking about how we manage conferences and travel, but that's more "we exist in the world" territory rather than the core focus of the project.) A somewhat tedious and not-sexy but possibly effective place that we could focus is on ensuring modern power management features are correctly enabled and working properly in Debian installations out of the box. My understanding is that Linux has gained quite a few facilities for reducing power consumption, not all of them are automatic, and there are some complex interactions with other system components such as the desktop environment. There may be some low-hanging fruit here that would help Debian consume less power by default, or places where there is no one right decision but we could provide a low-power option to users who want it. This also has the advantage that, whether or not the specific framing of this thread is inspiring to a given Debian contributor, everyone wants longer laptop battery life and lower power bills for their data centers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
