On 11-07-27 07:27 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > The needs of servers, portables and desktops are very different.
Right! And thanks so much for your input, for starters! > Portables need to suspend and generally be "off" as much as possible. > Suspend is best handled with "suspend 2 both", so the machine resumes > quickly if it can, but if the battery dies there is a non-volatile > copy. WiFi is a core feature. Would testing suspend-to-mem and suspend-to-disk independently work to validate this behavior? I also did a search for "ubuntu s2both" and results look pretty bleak :( it seems to require a bit more tweaking. I'm probably wrong so if you know whether it's easily configurable please let us know. > Desktops tend to have more attached devices: printing or scanning may be > core functions the desktop user cannot live without. Suspend is > important here, but just for energy and noise savings. WiFi is not a > core feature. Agreed, however "printing or scanning" in the context of the *computer* basically means testing the USB stack works correctly. If it does, but the printer and/or scanner has no Linux drivers, which one is not Ubuntu Friendly? and just to be clear, peripherals are not being considered in this project. If my system is friendly but my "peripheral X" doesn't work, it's the peripheral's fault. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > The tools would benefit greatly from a small "quiz" section: > > a) Are there devices attached this computer you don't use, because they > don't work? > b) Do you suspend or hibernate this machine? > 1) Does it work well? I think we can get useful data from an actual user's observations, but like Ara said, this needs to be handled carefully, as it's information coming from humans :) (sorry to sound like a robot here). > ----------------------------------------------------- > And don't forget http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ > Which both may provide some guide as to what is important, > and a way to collect some data from a larger pool of people than will ever > run a data collection utility. Great idea, I'll take a look and see if there's some useful info to be gleaned from here. Thanks, - Daniel -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
