Ian wrote:test

Are you saying I should test it? You are correct, but wondering if anyone else ever has before I go fiddling around

That's a nice setup you've got there and the low power consumption you've achieved is impressive. Re your question, I've never thought about this before. Why do you think the OS would make a difference to the power consumption? On idle I'd reckon they'd both be the same. After all, the hardware is ...

Greetings, I've talk myself into and out of setting up an Ubuntu server several times. The one thing I continually *want* to believe is something I can't find any good comparative data on. That is simply windows vs a linux server distro idle power consumption. At one point using this site I installe...