On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:19:12PM +0000, Simon Ransome wrote:
It's very ironic, given that CUPS was largely developed by Apple, that
Mostly "developed" in the Microsoft sense of the word ;)
Mind you, this might just be a product of better modern technology - it's been a couple of years since I last tried Linux on a (new-at-the-time) laptop, and Windows (which was always traditionally rubbish at hibernate) may *finally* have sussed this out in version 7...
Hibernate and suspend work perfectly on my Thinkpad W500 with Linux in fact, everything worked out of the with Ubuntu apart from the hard disk active protection system system which was the case of just installing 1 package. Of course, Linux and Windows would be perfect for hibernate and suspend if they had the luxury of dictating which small subset of hardware the operating systems have to run on.
One thing Apple haven't sussed yet is how to release a version of Mac OS X that runs on my Thinkpad and other vendors hardware, but both Microsoft and the Linux vendors have worked out various ways of running their products on them....
Adam