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in message <41D6F77A.1030905@ultra-secure.de>,
wrote Rainer Duffner thusly...
>
> >FreeBSD is not as good as Windows in a single point: power
> >consumption.
> 
> It's even worse than Linux (SuSE 9.2). At least on my
            ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
            ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> Fujitsu-Siemens E8010.

First i thought FreeBSD is worse than SuSe in power management.


> But SuSE totally drops the ball in the ACPI-departement. ...

Reading rest of the paragraph shows that you meant to say that SuSe
is actually worse (in comparison to FreeBSD or Windows).


  - Parv

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