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From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: Re: APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:48:18PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
> First off, I'd like to note, once again, that APM works PERFECTLY under
> Linux on this laptop with a 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernel. I could even suspend
> and resume from X Windows without problems. FreeBSD's APM code must not
> be as mature as Linux's, or Linux's APM code has patches applied to deal
> with my (possibly) quirky BIOS.
> 

you compare a stable linux kernel branch with an unstable freebsd branch.
please make yourself familiar with freebsds (and possibly linux') release
process before you make statements like this. you will only piss off the
people that are trying to help you.