Re: on suspend

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

On Wednesday, 04 May, 2011 07:05 AM, Jesse Hutton wrote:
> Why is Gnome Shell relying so heavily on something that is notoriously 
> difficult to make work across a wide array of hardware configurations?
The developers and designers must have their reasons, but I have the 
same question as you have. Only Microsoft and Apple have valid reasons 
to do _something_ like this since:
> Apple owned their hardware
> Microsoft will expect computer manufacturers to bundle their hardware 
with drivers _out_of_the_box_.
> We cannot expect computer manufacturers to support all versions of 
the Linux kernel at the same time. So power management like "Suspend" 
won't work across the board.

Regards,
Allan