On Tuesday 23 January 2007 07:50, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-01-22, Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (One of our concerns at work was heat from CRTs (perhaps bizarrely, > > given that we're in south west London, but we really had been in an > > office where heat was a significant problem, though we aren't, > > now).) > > [And speaking of heat and power consumption, the state of software > suspend in Linux totally sucks, and yet it's one of the most > important features I can think of. It sucks having to leave the > computer on when you don't use it, because it's such a _chore_ to > bring it and all the programs up again, especially as session > management support sucks too (and there's no protocol it for terminal > programs). The hardware suspend support of desktop mobos also tends > to be poor, PSU fan still keeping humming and so on. (And I haven't > heard of that good things of the Linux laptop support either.) That's > one very good reason to use Windows: hibernate. Of course, even > better would be if the computer could run on _really_ low power, > shutting down all the fans, not using the disks except very > infrequently, and so on, but still react to ssh connection attempts > etc. ...). Well, at least with 'athcool' I managed to make the system > run 10C cooler most of the time.] If it wasn't working on my laptop then I wouldn't of started using Linux on my laptop. Luckily for me suspend2 works well on my laptops.
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