__/ [ Geico Caveman ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 02:32 \__
> Darth Chaos wrote:
>
>> It seems that within 30-45 seconds of turning on my laptop, Ubuntu has
>> already booted into the desktop.
/Far/ quick than SuSE. That's for sure!
> The natural question to ask is :
>
> Why are you booting your laptop at all ? Heard of suspend2 ?
True. Ubuntu is among the first distributions where the feature is known to
work reliably and consistently across different models. Don't forget that
laptop vendors preload and customise the O/S in order to fit and support the
feature in just one particular, non-standardised model/module. Linux
transcends quite an abyss, without any additional driver CD's.
Links of interest below:
Put your laptop to sleep
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| The Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu Linux includes the new
| gnome-power-manager package, which enables ACPI sleep much like the
| system-tray power applet in Windows. Finally, sleep "just works" in
| Linux.
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http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/26/1641234&from=rss
How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux
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| Several distributions try to make this work out of the box, but
| knowing what's under the hood always comes in handy, particularly
| when something goes wrong and needs fixing. Let's take a look at how
| to suspend and hibernate your laptop under Linux.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222&from=rss
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