Software Suspend in a Unlikely Place
I've been working to get Linux working 100% on my laptop for ages. It's HP Ze4430us which is only about year old. Even with 2.6.x I was unable to get software suspend (Saving machine state to disk) which many Linux laptop users bemoan the lack of and are forced to wait through long boot times for many distros.
We'll I loaded my Distro of choice (Linspire) onto the laptop. I did not expect the desktop edition (Linspire has a Laptop Edition) to have any special laptop features already loaded. We'll it did and when the battery meter loaded up I saw a option to suspend. Since it was a fresh install and I was not really worried of screwing up anything I told it to suspend. We'll it did. And better yet it completely booted back up when I hit the power button. Mouse was a little confused but after turning it on and off with the button on the keyboard it worked fine.. so it's not really a big issue. They pulled this off on a 2.4.24 kernel which is also a big surprise.
So I can honestly say everything I want working on my laptop is working great. I'm still having a 54g issue and my trusted Linuxant drivers are not behaving but I'm confident I will have that issue fixed sometime today when I get time to see why it's not working.
posted by Corey @ 6:09 AM
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Ohhh.. you've got a laptop with Linspire on it? You're so cooooool... ;___; (I'm jealous) You know, I wish I could have a cheap laptop with Linspire on it.
When my husband gets deployed (he's military) I'd like to visit my parents. I'd like to have all my info portable, be able to not worry abuot how I'm gonna contact my friends (who are on all IM services but my parents only have AIM). I'd like to not worry about remembering all the addresses and passwords to the sites I go to (for business or pleasure).
But mostly, I want them to see what Linspire is, and see how good it is. I want them to get a glimpse at what choice means, and that they don't have to stay with Windows if they don't want to. (And my Dad is REALLY cheap and I bet I could at LEAST get him interested..)
But I can't afford top-of-the line laptops. Heck, I can't even afford medium-of-the line laptops. LOL. And even if I found a laptop that's cheap, I wouldn't know how compatible it is to Linux, specifically, Linspire. I don't want to spend a couple'a 100$'s on something only find I'm stuck with Windows. (Ewwwwwwwwwww...)
That's why I wish they had something similiar to Koobox for laptops. I'd like something with the basics, that I know for sure will run Linspire properly. That's what I'd love to see... *sighs dreamily*
Sorry if I rambled. ^_^;
You dont have to have a top of the line laptop to run Linspire or any other Linux distribution. Older laptops commonly will be entirely supported verses newer laptops.
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