W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I read all the comments and I am wondering if anyone has been using Solaris > desktops (including Solaris notebooks) exclusively for an extended period > time. > > Developers have their special needs. For a Joe/Jane Solaris-wannabe, one of > the key features is suspend (to ram and to disc). > > "Suspend" is understandably very hardware-dependent. Now that Intel has an > in-house OpenSolaris team to improve Solaris hardware compatibility, perhaps > we can concentrate on a couple of core2duo notebooks (e.g., Lenovo/IBM > Thinkpad R61i), and demonstrate that the suspend feature can be implemented > in Solaris.
Suspend is a kernel/driver issue, not a desktop one, and suspend-to-ram is already implemented in OpenSolaris and demonstratable today - it's getting all the drivers updated to support it that they still need to do. They're also working with the GNOME team to integrate GNOME power manager support for it, and since they're using HAL, the KDE equivalent tools should work as well. For more info, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007102001/ http://blogs.sun.com/randyf/entry/suspend_and_resume http://blogs.sun.com/randyf/entry/solaris_suspend_and_resume_how http://blogs.sun.com/randyf/entry/testing_suspend_and_resume_for -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
