Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:31:14 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management? |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > Nigel, don't take it as a personal offense, but I think it is a very > centric view of Linux usages. Where I work, Linux is used a lot on > servers and appliances. It is used for mail relays, HTTP proxies, > anti-viruses, firewalls, routers, load balancers, UTM, SSH relays, > etc... Nobody would ever want to enable power management on those > machines, let alone suspend which would cause a major havoc, would > the system decide to enter suspend for any reason. > > Many people also have Linux on their notebooks, but as a dual-boot. You > read the word ? "dual-boot". It means that they cleanly shutdown their > system every time they don't use it anymore, and they won't know what > OS they'll use next time. > > I've never heard anyone there complaining "oh, I'm fed up with this > boring boot, I always have to wait 30 seconds when I need to do > something, I wish I could suspend and resume". It is considered the > normal way of using their PCs.
I think your experience is rather different than that of Joe Average User who doesn't frequent kernel lists, and also I think you'll find that for a lot of Linux laptop users that don't use supend, the reason is that it doesn't work reliably, quite often due to driver issues.
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