Re: [tlug] linux laptop hibernate question

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

dave@example.com wrote:
> steven smith <sjs@example.com> writes:
>
> > I have a dual boot thinkpad x40.  It doesn't get used on
> > Linux much because at the time I built it, suspend and
> > hibernate weren't working well.  Suspend back then (SuSE
> > 10.1) crashed the machine and hibernate took as long to
> > recover as shutdown/reboot. 
>
> > Does anyone have experience with
> > hibernate/suspend on linux.  Are the hibernate/suspend
> > features working better than they were?  Should I upgrade to
> > a more recent release of Linux?
>
> Here's a page on sleep/wake problems and solutions with various ThinkPads. Does
> anything there help?
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume
>
> Dave
I think rather than pursue this further, I'm going to 
upgrade the system and see how it is then.  As little as 
I've done with this system, I really should upgrade before 
spending too much time.

I now have a liveboot disk of ubuntu 7.04 and SimplyMepis 
(which I'd never heard of) and Debian 4.0 from a Linux 
Format magazine I picked up this morning.  That and the 
recent discussion of distro's will be helpful.

I bookmarked thinkwiki.org.  It should be a really valuable 
resource.  I think finding that was what finally made me decide.

I may just go with Ubuntu and call it good.  If Dell thinks 
it's the way to go, how can it be wrong :)  (um -- that's a 
lame attempt at humor)

Seriously though, Linux Format just ran a pretty extensive 
comparison and they rate overall:
1) Ubuntu
2) SuSE
3) Debian
4) PCLiuxOS (?)
5) Mandrivea
6) Fedora
7) Slackware
8) Sabyon (?)
For some reason they didn't even look at Gentoo.

Thank you for the reply Dave!

Steve S.