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    I think the section entitled "Laptops" is overly optimistic.  First,
    as far as i know, suspend-to-disk has only this week been announced
    (on this mailing list) for anything other than the i386 platform, and
    even there, many laptops only marginally work with software suspend/
    suspend-to-disk. I really doubt that any file system utilizing USB or
    ieee1394 is going to work reliably (if at all) with suspend for many
    laptops in the near future. I think the 2.6.0 shakedown and the amount
    of attention (or lack thereof) given to suspend-related bugs makes it
    clear that suspend-to-disk/software suspend is still experimental in
    this release.

    I sincerely hope that changes very soon and i will do what i can to
    help. Meanwhile, please qualify that section to read:

    ... now supports full software-suspend-to-disk functionality on many
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    laptops for the Linux user on the go.
    ------- [emphasis to show added text]

    It's definitely improved, but in many instances (especially where the
    laptop manufacturer has not provided full hardware/BIOS documentation),
    it does not work well and may be difficult to make reliable in the near
    future.

    Respectfully submitted,
    -- JM
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