Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Sep 18 14:17:30 UTC 2006


pastafarian wrote:

> 
> Sorry to say Ubuntu & Linux will always be the destined piece-of-shit
> for not handling acpi suspend/hibernate decently.

Huh?  It works like a dream, thanks.

> YOU THINK PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT TO LEAVE THEIR COMPUTERS ON, CONSUMING AT
> THE LEAST 150W ??

Hell, no.  I don't have 150W to spare (though with a laptop, it's nothing
like that anyway).

> I can understand third-party apps not working, like video conferencing,
> because they were not interested in supporting linux..but for something
> that should have been built in to the core OS, this is disheartening.

It's there.  In the kernel.  Works out of the box.

Good riddance, I say.
-- 
derek





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