I use FreeBSD on all my systems and I'm a very happy user. I also run it on my laptop and at the moment I have both Windows XP and Ubuntu running in VirtualBox, plus I have a lot of other applications open as well and it just works great under heavy load.
Now, restarting all these applications every time I turn off my laptop would be very painful and therefore I tried suspend/resume but it didn't work (on 7.2). So for the moment I simply keep my laptop running most of the time. I know ACPI is not a priority and may never become one, but it makes laptop usage much harder without.
Anyway, has support for suspend/resume been improved in 8? Is resuming from multiple cores supported on i386?. I realize that many ACPI implementations are buggy and that makes development hard and time consuming. After my busy period I will look into debugging ACPI for my laptop and see if I can make myself of use. And next time I will check the suspend/resume support before I buy a laptop.
Now, restarting all these applications every time I turn off my laptop would be very painful and therefore I tried suspend/resume but it didn't work (on 7.2). So for the moment I simply keep my laptop running most of the time. I know ACPI is not a priority and may never become one, but it makes laptop usage much harder without.
Anyway, has support for suspend/resume been improved in 8? Is resuming from multiple cores supported on i386?. I realize that many ACPI implementations are buggy and that makes development hard and time consuming. After my busy period I will look into debugging ACPI for my laptop and see if I can make myself of use. And next time I will check the suspend/resume support before I buy a laptop.