Re: Annoyance : unable to shut the comptuer down with linux

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Steve wrote:

> Linux is, as of yet unable to shut off your computer if you computer has 
> newer hardware.
> 
> Some uber geeks can do this by recompiling their kernel with the power 
> management module

This depends on the distro you use.

Red Hat's distro has supported this since at least 7.x, WITHOUT requiring
the kernel to be recompiled.

> Steve

Best Regards,
Alex.
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