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The tty layer is one of the very few pieces of kernel code that scares the hell out of me.

I wish people would focus less on who wrote the actual code that got merged in the end, and more on the problem that got solved.... People who care about the desktop should be happy that the scheduler improved a lot due to the competition where the two new schedulers were hair-close in most aspects.

-- Arjan van de Ven

This spec says that systems which can not automatically go into suspend within 15 minutes of idle can _not_ earn a sticker. No sticker, no client computer sales to governments. If Linux can't get STR [suspend-to-RAM] working, broadly deployed, and enabled by default, then our plans for world domination are going to take a significant hit.

-- Len Brown

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Posted Aug 5, 2007 8:10 UTC (Sun) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Len is almost correct, the Energy Star specification says that the display must go to sleep after 15 minutes and that after 30 minutes of inactivity the computer must go to sleep. Viz:

Shipment Requirement: Products must be shipped with the display's Sleep mode set to activate within 15 minutes of user inactivity. All products, except for desktop-derived servers which are exempt from this requirement, must be shipped with a Sleep mode which is set to activate within 30 minutes of user inactivity.

So the outcome is still the same, this needs to work!

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Posted Aug 9, 2007 11:55 UTC (Thu) by jarkao2 (guest, #41960) [Link]

> [...] then our plans for world domination are going to take a significant hit.
> -Len Brown

No way! Skillful Linux developers shall kick your asses and defend the world against any domination!

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Posted Aug 10, 2007 5:14 UTC (Fri) by jarkao2 (guest, #41960) [Link]

OOPS! But, if this GPL3 thing is settled already, then, of course, *we* can dominate the world, no problem...