Re:linux? OS X? (Score 1)

Boy, really not reading much today. The second screen works while the laptop is in suspend. I'm still waiting for you to explain how that's done without OS modifications.

I have not read much about Windows Vista features, but i'll take a shot on this. If the laptop, the main processor etc. is on suspend, then it does not matter what OS is running there as the processor does not get power to work with. If the underlying operating system does work, then the suspend mode is some kind of soft-suspend, meaning that it's just running on low-power which could most propably be used on every OS just by throttling the processor etc.

I would guess this feature is implemented by having a low power consumption processor with a bit of memory and a LCD (aka. a PDA) running on the laptop while the main components are in the suspend mode. And the information is synced from the main OS to the PDA when going to the suspend, but not updated till the computer wakes up; well not updated with information from the OS, might update stuff from the internet by getting some network info from the OS going in to the suspension and using that.

So in, any of these hypotheses, it could be done in user mode.


Still, sure i'm glad that Microsoft is innovating, most of the best innovations have been simple stuff that everyone could have implemented. I really hope that Windows Vista is going to be the best Windows operating system, as sadly we seem to be stuck on that platform for many things. I myself would like to see a collabrative effort of companies and inviduals to create the perfect global operating system that would be openfree and beerfree. One can wish.