Feather Linux

[a...@ken.us]

Question: Is Feather Linux capable of putting the computer into sleep mode
or hibernate? That is a dealbreaker, for me at least, because I'm the type
that likes to leave the computer running unattended for hours on end, and I
would prefer not to waste too much electricity doing that.

I became disillusioned with Puppy for that reason; it does not appear to
allow suspend or hibernation. bummer.

[September Storm]

a...@ken.us wrote:

Never heard of it. I'll never understand why people opt to use any of
the other dozens or hundreds of weirdly named Linux dists out there,
when most (like Slackware, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, SuSe,
and so many other common one's can accomplish the same goals)? Sorry,
I know that doesn't answer your question, but you're comparing "Puppy"
and "Feather", and it seems extreme and unnecessary, or maybe I'm just
not a part of the culture of people that deal with those dists to
understand why people would try and decide between two that a lot of
people haven't heard of (though most things should essentially be the
same anyway). I just don't get it.

[David W. Hodgins]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:24:21 -0400, <a...@ken.us> wrote:

> Question: Is Feather Linux capable of putting the computer into sleep mode

Whether or not any version of linux can do that depends on both the
kernel acpi modules being able to work with that computer, and the
scripts handling the sleep/resume operations.

I'm not familiar with Feather linux, but expect that the best results
will happen with the latest kernel available, and the latest bios
update for that computer.

What make/model of computer, and which bios make/version are you
using?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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[a...@ken.us]

David W. Hodgins wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:24:21 -0400, <a...@ken.us> wrote:
>
>> Question: Is Feather Linux capable of putting the computer into sleep
>> mode
>
> Whether or not any version of linux can do that depends on both the
> kernel acpi modules being able to work with that computer, and the
> scripts handling the sleep/resume operations.
>
> I'm not familiar with Feather linux, but expect that the best results
> will happen with the latest kernel available, and the latest bios
> update for that computer.
>
> What make/model of computer, and which bios make/version are you
> using?
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

I'm running a Dell desktop I got several years back. It's a Dell Dimenstion
E510, with a Pentium 4. The BIOS is Phoenix, version A02.

My computer is capable of hibernating with XP. I just want to make sure
that it will be able to do so with linux.