Linked by Adam S on Wed 23rd May 2007 23:54 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems If online articles and blogs are any indication of things, the number of Linux users migrating to, and satisfied with, Ubuntu GNU/Linux seems to be staggering. Given that, it was only a matter of time before a capable company had the resources to offer accessible, affordable Linux desktops and notebooks that delivered the way that Apple's products have. Colorado-based System76 sent us their Darter Ultra for review, and proved that there is an OEM hardware/software combination capable of being the primary PC for the general public.
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RE: suspend to ram
by ubit on Thu 24th May 2007 00:53 UTC in reply to "suspend to ram"
ubit
Member since:
2006-09-08

GNOME is really weird about that. On my Thinkpad, all I see are Blank Screen and Shutdown. I have to wander into GConf->gnome-power-manager to enable suspend and hibernate and get them to show up for some reason. Also, the suspend bar doesn't let me choose anything less than 11 minutes on battery power, but anyways...

I need a new laptop and this review was very appropos to me; I had heard some issues with Ubuntu on their laptops, but reading this shows that there really aren't any bad issues. The competition between Dell and System76 should be very interesting to watch, since S76 has a great head start.

Edited 2007-05-24 00:54

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RE[2]: suspend to ram
by Eugenia on Thu 24th May 2007 01:25 in reply to "RE: suspend to ram"
Eugenia Member since:
2005-06-28

>On my Thinkpad, all I see are Blank Screen and Shutdown.

Then it's your distro's ACPI script support not complete, and so Gnome can't pick it up from that point. If you run Ubuntu the options should be there.

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RE[2]: suspend to ram
by jcpinto on Thu 24th May 2007 03:54 in reply to "RE: suspend to ram"
jcpinto Member since:
2006-08-30

It's a configuration option as you just saw in gconf-editor. Doesn't seem a problem with Power Management!
The suspend bar can be adjusted lower than 11 minutes, if you adjust screensaver to less than 10 minutes. This is a behavior of gnome-screensaver if I'm not wrong.

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