Are you running Linux as your desktop?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:20:07 -0500 (EST)
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

| | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
| 
| | Linux fans (like me) don't always add up the time we spend to do
| | things the better way.
| 
| Example from last night:
| 
| I wanted to put a newer release on a notebook.

As I mentioned in that message, I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on that
notebook.  I also installed Fedora 14.

Suspend/resume would hang hard under Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14.  But
not Ubuntu 9.10.  After much searching and researching, I found that
this was the problem:
  <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396>
You can see my addition at the end.  Work-around: add the kernel
parameter acpi_sleep=nonvs.

Yet another example of how using Linux costs us time.  Note: I'm not
saying Linux is at fault, only that its users pay a price.  It sure
looks to me as if the fault is a bad BIOS but that's never going to be
fixed.
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