Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Sep 2008 19:01 UTC, submitted by michuk
The next Ubuntu release is already around the corner. Only two more months, and the next tidal wave of brown 2 paragraph reviews will be upon us. PolishLinux decided that they'd be ahead of the pack, by taking a look at what Ubuntu 8.10 looks like right now, and what new features it brings. Of course, many of these features come from upstream, and will find their way into other distributions as well - or are already there.
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If you think it is a Linux only issue, Windows suffers from the same problems when it comes to ACPI issues. It reminds me of an ACPI issue within Windows XP that is so bad it requires a complete re-install. Half-baked implementations that not only stop Linux from installing but destabilise Windows installations and cause performance loss, crashing etc.
Indeed, Windows suffers from power-management issues also. I have several older machines that just hang whenever I try to suspend them. Linux on the other hand works perfectly fine, suspends and resumes without issue.
However, I do agree with the original poster of this thread: Linux PM needs improvement. A lot. Many device drivers still don't support power-management at all and some of them support it but it's flaky.