just use right hardware ;) for example, hibernate and suspend to ram works fine on thinkpads.
thanks, Alex >>>>> Tuomo Valkonen (TV) writes: TV> [And speaking of heat and power consumption, the state of software TV> suspend in Linux totally sucks, and yet it's one of the most important TV> features I can think of. It sucks having to leave the computer TV> on when you don't use it, because it's such a _chore_ to bring it TV> and all the programs up again, especially as session management support TV> sucks too (and there's no protocol it for terminal programs). The TV> hardware suspend support of desktop mobos also tends to be poor, PSU fan TV> still keeping humming and so on. (And I haven't heard of that good TV> things of the Linux laptop support either.) That's one very good reason TV> to use Windows: hibernate. Of course, even better would be if the computer TV> could run on _really_ low power, shutting down all the fans, not using TV> the disks except very infrequently, and so on, but still react to ssh TV> connection attempts etc. ...). Well, at least with 'athcool' I managed TV> to make the system run 10C cooler most of the time.] TV> -- TV> Tuomo
