From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 20:10:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD02106567D for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF3F8FC17 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qabg1 with SMTP id g1so981244qab.13 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=DxH9+tFz5mN2kvYCGD5Gi3+1872aB/TossoRVSHp3DU=; b=vQ3eC1XnFf6dUo1XM0kOIvudinRfItn99PY8+zQFdHm8/1uTVL5JvfAm4hj6Jqa92J YDn8ybzpoQlL29KhdmxZXSonPhmPp566c7byp5ByGSEZ6xvlA/Vul0n62z2Y9mQY5R4l VkGsHS9rhIKSiaMsEQrWDdX8DHlvJ0jRmo2wcdWKMbXS3E9bzca/DsFxrEAEBpY0n+M3 cpGsyewb8p2dH+h0yLAR8N2eVQtql5Y3yjS0FMHMzaOJqa5VCBwTN/Ll6RTWYMFCe4p7 /hrBbGAnAZW64idFZ72EDNPfST6Kqjv8M9IA69K9PHV2+g4FO4t4NA3KIifAEjVTHUvY DQrA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.138.76 with SMTP id z12mr8483275qat.30.1339186243809; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.95.82 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:10:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120601121555.GF5335@home.opsec.eu> <4FC8B67D.5090208@digsys.bg> <20120601131236.GJ8591@macbook.bluepipe.net> <4FC8CFB1.6060605@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:10:43 -0700 Message-ID: From: Steve Franks To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:10:44 -0000 On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > For me it is the lack of support for suspend/resume on laptops. I don't > want to turn off my laptop when I am in the middle of doing something but > need to put the laptop aside. I love using FreeBSD on servers, workstations > and even a computer I have hooked to the TV at home for multimedia purpose, > but not having suspend/resume working on my laptops is a major source of > annoyance for me. So I have been trying various Linux distributions instead > and I am currently using Gentoo, which is not that bad, although I find > that system configuration and maintenance is always more painful with Linux > than FreeBSD no matter the distribution I use... +1000. (I understand this may not be feasible given the number of developers, by the way) Steve