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Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by wolf550e on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:02PM (#5839685)
As long as they're connected to a wall socket. Otherwise, citation needed. Power Management in hard. Who does the myriad of hardware quirks for OpenBSD?
Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by adamrt on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:30PM (#5839854)
If you are referring to suspend/resume, then OpenBSD has great support[1]. Its one of the very few ACPI stacks not derived from Intel's ACPICA reference code.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/papers/zzz.pdf (older, 2011)

Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by microcolonel on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:44PM (#5839942)
Suspend and resume are basic features, by power management I mean idle and active power management, optimizing the race to zero, reclocking...
Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by dman on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:10PM (#5840139)
Working suspend and resume is not a basic feature as far as linuxen go.
Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by microcolonel on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:31PM (#5840279)
Would you like to explain that, and maybe cite some references? Suspend and resume have been stable for me as long as I've had a computer capable of supporting them. And I'm not aware of any way to make them fail without doing something obviously intended to disable them.
Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by msbarnett on Friday June 07, 2013 @02:10PM (#5840567)
Reference: Every time I've tried Linux on a laptop, Suspend, Resume, or Both has been broken in whatever $FLAVOR_OF_THE_MONTH distro/package/kernel the community insists is the next big thing.

The BSDs tend to implement these things later but far more reliably.

Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by microcolonel on Friday June 07, 2013 @03:47PM (#5841199)
Never been broken on Arch, Fedora, Debian... or any of the upstream distributions I've used, when I've used them.

Your personal exacerbation of whatever imaginary and nonspecific issues you're talking about is not relevant to a conversation about people other than you.

The world doesn't need your BSD FUD. "The BSDs" is also absolutely silly as ideas go, there are BSDs which have never supported suspend/resume.

Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by sbuk on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:10AM (#5843759)
What the world doesn't need is this continuing holy war from a particularly small but sadly vocal minority of the Linux community. You really don't help the cause. I find it particularly irononic of you to accuse someone of spreading "BSD FUD" on a thread about FreeBSD. I'll 'cite' you an example of real 'FUD'; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5839565
Re:FreeBSD 8.4 is now available by bifrost on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:44AM (#5847734)
I had to install Debian on a laptop last week actually, suspend/resume absolutely did not work on it...

> The world doesn't need your BSD FUD.

You have just doomed yourself to the "I have no idea what I'm talking about" club.