Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:

> On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:09 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
>  
>
> > Just skip a release or two - you're not going to lose out on anything big
> > unless there's something highly specific you need to get running that's
> > only covered in a later version.  As ever, though, I'll be splashing out
> > the moolah on 9.2 as soon as I get the chance to order it ...
> >    
>
> Actually, the .2 releases have proven to be the best.  Skip .0 and.1
> if you will, but always snap up .2.   
>
>  
Actually, I am wondering what 9.2 can do for my laptop that 9.0 isn't 
doing.  I know lots of kernel work has gone on for ACPI.  Unfortunately 
my laptop is also running custom compiled KDE and Gnome and loads of 
updated software for both systems.   I would like to have some of the 
power management and suspend/hibernate functionality, but I'm getting 
along pretty well right now without it.  A battery level warning sure 
would be nice though, and even 2.4 doesn't seem to provide updated 
information after getting the first reading on startup.

I'll  be anxiously awating word of how good the ACPI support is.

Jim